How Many New Species Were Discovered In 2025. “the vast, vast, overwhelming majority of the newly described species are not newly evolved,” henrik enghoff, a taxonomist specializing in millipedes, told mcclatchy news. Nearly 1,000 new species were discovered by scientists in 2023, including hundreds of wasps and a legless lizard.

Kew’s scientists and international partners share their 10 favourite new species named to science in 2023. But with over 163,000 species on the iucn red list of threatened species, over 45,000 of which are at risk of extinction (as of august 2024), news of new animal and plant species being discovered can feel few and far between.