The phrase "a new specimen" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts such as scientific research, biology, or any situation where a fresh example or sample is being introduced or discussed.
Example: "The researchers were excited to analyze a new specimen they had discovered in the field."
Alternatives: "a fresh sample" or "an additional specimen".
"Like a new specimen of human beings".
A New Specimen of Large-Bodied Basal Enantiornithine Bohaiornis from the Early Cretaceous of China and the Inference of Feeding Ecology in Mesozoic Birds.
Reporting your sightings to the Audubon Society is decidedly less glamorous than dispatching a new specimen to a museum in Paris or London, but it's a kindred enterprise.
"It does not only contribute new fossil material to a period for which very little is preserved, but it contributes a new specimen that is astonishingly complete for its age".
It may almost seem passé now to talk of feathered dinosaurs but there is still so much we don't know, and every extra detail from a new specimen can potentially help bridge a gap or be used to test the validity of various hypotheses and suggestions scientists have made.
A couple of years back I happened to start looking at the tails of various pterosaurs (the flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs) after a new specimen turned up that was obviously a member of a group that had short tails, but happened in this case to have a relatively long tail.
So, when the opportunity arose to obtain a spectacular new specimen of a Stegosaurus, the museum embarked on a project that took nearly two years from its conception to the appearance of this iconic dinosaur centre-stage in our Earth Hall.
A single new specimen of Spinosculda ehrlichi Haug, Haug & Waloszek, 2009 is very small and shows no really new details, but is significantly smaller than the holotype, a late larval stage.
In yet another, the experience is more akin to walking through an arboretum, where every turn brings you face to face with an exciting new specimen of bush or flower.
But even if Archaeopteryx is a bird, the new specimen, reported by a team led by Pascal Godefroit, a paleontologist at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, could push it off its perch as the earliest one known.
Yet there can be little doubt that the "splitting" taxonomic philosophy of the past where almost every new specimen received a new species or quite frequently a new genus name was in dire need of revision.
