Worth a thousand words
If you like your news with cool photographs you should bookmark National Geographic's 'Photos in the News' page.
Here are some recent stories relevant to this class:
New 'Wasp' Orchids tempt male bugs. In a crafty evolutionary hoax, six newly discovered orchid species are shaped like female wasps to trick males into pollinating them.
Baby Mammoth found frozen in Russia. A six-month-old baby mammoth found in Russia's remote Siberian north is the best preserved example of the species ever recovered.
It's those giant penguins again. Two species of ancient penguin have been uncovered in a Peruvian desert, including one that stood almost 5 feet (1.5 meters) tall, a new study reports.
Surprising herds discovered in Southern Sudan. Aerial pictures reveal vast herds of antelope, elephants, and ostriches flourishing in Southern Sudan, despite decades of war.
Amazon expedition discovers dozens of new animals. A flashy purple frog and a kissy-faced catfish are among the 24 new animal species recently discovered by scientists working in the remote highlands of Suriname.This time last year: Leonard Cohen's March of the Penguin's and Elephants in Space
Labels: Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecology
posted by John Latto @ 2:58 PM
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It's amazing that species visible to the naked eye are still being discovered.
I've heard that there are between 5 and 30 million undiscovered species, most of which I assume are microscopic. Regardless, where are these species "hiding" and is there an urgent effort to find and identify these undiscovered species within the scientific community?
You have the right idea- we have definitely discovered more of the big things than the small things but most of the unknowns are probably insects rather than microscopic, and most of them are in the tropics rather than the better studied temperate region. A big problem in many groups is in knowing what is new and what is not. That takes a high degree of taxonomic experience and the number of people with such experience may be declining rather than increasing. More on this subject in lecture 8.
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