MOTH DISCOVERY

Researchers recently found a bright purple-and-orange moth hidden in Crete’s White Mountains, and they gave it an unusual name: the Pope Leo moth. The new species wasn’t just another discovery—it was hiding in plain sight. For years, scientists had been calling it by another name, Pyralis kachetical

In the Siberian region of Yakutia, locals made an amazing discovery in June—a perfectly preserved baby mammoth carcass. The mammoth, named Yana, was found in the Batagaika Crater after a part of it collapsed. Maksim Cheprasov, a scientist from the Mammoth Museum at the North-Eastern Federal Universi