New species discovery!
Tue, 07/21/2009 - 11:45pm
I had no idea theres been a decade long survey called the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory project, a project to inventory all of the species in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
890 new to science discoveries within this park alone. Even if you take off the bacteria, you still have 520 new to science discoveries. In one park! 36 butterflies and moths. 41 new spiders. 42 new beetles. 27 new flies.
Checkout: http://www.dlia.org/atbi/new_science/discoveries.shtml