Insects top latest inventory of newly discovered species

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 14:00 in Biology & Nature

More than half of the 19,232 species newly known to science in 2009, the most recent calendar year of compilation, were insects – 9,738 or 50.6 percent – according to the 2011 State of Observed Species (SOS) report released Jan. 18 by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University.

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