The Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona (MCNB) is the protagonist of a new contribution to paleontological research: a fossil preserved in its reserve (MGB V60), from the site of Sant Miquel de Toudell (Viladecavalls), has been key to describing a new genus and species of legless lizard, Fontisaurus tarumbaire. The study, led by the […]

Let’s continue with the Types of MCNB, specimens of current or fossil fauna that have been used to describe a new taxon, species or subspecies, in most cases. The museum preserves a very valuable part of the insect collection made by Longí Navàs i Ferrer (Cabacés, 1858-Girona, 1938), a Jesuit priest and great naturalist, a […]

Abellaite is the first new mineral species discovered in Catalonia. The first specimens were found in 2010 at the Eureka mine (Castell-Estaó, La Torre de Cabdella, Lleida) and abellaite was approved as a new mineral by the International Mineralogical Association (IMA) in 2015. It was named in honour of its discoverer, the mineralogist and gemmologist […]

Many of the world’s animal and plant species are still to be described. Year after year, researchers describe new species for science. This is the case of the species Xerocrassa edmundi Martínez–Ortí, 2006, described in the twenty-first century by Alberto Martínez Ortí.. He studied samples collected from the province of Castelló on which he based […]