Do freshwater snails make good tennis players? One of them certainly has the name for…
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Pensoft Publishers is a scholarly publishing company that specializes in the field of natural history, particularly taxonomy, biodiversity, and related disciplines. Founded in 1992 and based in Sofia, Bulgaria, Pensoft is known for its innovative approach to open access publishing and the development of advanced tools for semantic publishing and data dissemination. They publish a variety of scientific journals and books, with ZooKeys and PhytoKeys being among their most prominent journals. These publications are notable for integrating narrative content with data-rich information, including interactive keys, multimedia, and large datasets. Pensoft’s publications are geared towards facilitating the accessibility and reusability of scientific data, thereby promoting global knowledge sharing and the advancement of science in biodiversity and environmental research.
Spiders from the genus Phoneutria — also known as banana spiders — are considered aggressive…
A worryingly high number of Asian bamboo longhorn beetles (Chlorophorus annularis) turn out to have…
A link between evolution over short time frames (microevolution) and long time frames (macroevolution) that…
Deemed to never see the light of the day, a new species of endemic, troglobiont…
Described by the ‘father of zoogeography’ and co-author of the theories of evolution and natural…
Despite the active ongoing taxonomic progress on Madagascar’s frogs, the amphibian inventory of this hyper-diverse…
Following the recent Coronavirus outbreak, almost three million people have been infected worldwide, whereas the…
At this alarming time, when the COVID-19 pandemic is on everyone’s mind, a new special…
A new green pit viper species of the genus Trimeresurus was discovered during the herpetological…
Since its accidental introduction in 2003 in France, the yellow-legged Asian hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax)…
A new species of land snail, previously unknown to science, was discovered by a group…
A fossilized leafy branch from the early Eocene in Patagonia described in 1941 is still…
Hunting wild animals has been practiced by humans for millions of years; however, the extraction…
In the aftermath of the notorious accidents in the history of nuclear energy at Three…
While a mention of the British movie and music star is missing in its description,…
While monitoring of cryptic and elusive tiny creatures, such as pygmy seahorses that measure only…