Post by L Roebuck on May 24, 2008 7:16:54 GMT -5
Newly discovered species get their own league table
By Jonathan M. Gitlin
Although humankind's knowledge has expanded greatly over the past century, there's still an awful lot we don't know about the world we live in. There's much we still have to learn about the oceans and the organisms and ecosystems that populate them and, even on dry land, biologists are still finding new species in rain forests and other habitats. To celebrate that fact, an international panel of taxonomists, lead by Janine Caira, a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut, has published a list of the top ten new species described in 2007.
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By Jonathan M. Gitlin
Although humankind's knowledge has expanded greatly over the past century, there's still an awful lot we don't know about the world we live in. There's much we still have to learn about the oceans and the organisms and ecosystems that populate them and, even on dry land, biologists are still finding new species in rain forests and other habitats. To celebrate that fact, an international panel of taxonomists, lead by Janine Caira, a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut, has published a list of the top ten new species described in 2007.
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