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Satellite images show that Vietnam has created new land on all 21 rocks and so-called low-tide elevations—reefs that were previously submerged at high tide—that it occupies in the Spratlys.

Although early results are promising, the new fingerprint recovery method will need further testing and validation before it can be used by law enforcement agencies around the world.

By providing a faster, more standardized system, it dramatically shortens the time needed to publish new species.

Bond is no stranger to naming new spider species.

This new discovery turns that idea on its head and deepens the debate over one of biology's central mysteries: how and why genome size changes during the evolution of life.