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American Museum of Natural History’s new discoveries of 2025 include the small mouse opossum, which has an “exceptionally long nose and tail”

Jennifer Sandlin
Dec 19, 2025
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By Esteban Alzate - http://calphotos.berkeley.edu, CC BY-SA 2.5, Link CC BY-SA 2.0

The American Museum of Natural History recently posted a summary of some of its work in 2025, stating that this year, scientists working for the museum discovered more than 70 new species, from dinosaurs to a previously unknown mineral. When I read through the overviews of…

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