PHOTOS: Tiny Tropical Island Yields a Wealth of Species
Monday, November 24, 2008 - 17:49
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Using 21st century technology, an international group of scientists conducted an old-fashioned expedition on a little-studied South Pacific island in the Republic of Vanuatu. They collected 10,000 different species, 2,000 of which may be new to science.
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