Seven new millipede species were discovered in southwestern Japan. Korsós Z ... Xystodesmus sesokoensis, was found only in “a small forest” on an island less than 2 square miles big.

These aquatic mammals are friendly, playful, and make cute cooing sounds, so their social media stardom seems only natural ..

Shimano, a professor at Tokyo’s Hosei University, had found ... Sea of Japan side of the Japanese archipelago during his investigations. That meant this one “must be an unknown species ...

KAGOSHIMA--A dwarf shrub species of the nettle family, believed extinct in Japan for about a century, was recently found to be thriving in the wild on Amami-Oshima island, part of southern Japan's ...

Japan's government approved ... and not the development of a new species. "We are trying to do targeted organ generation, so the cells go only to the pancreas," he said, according to Nature.