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.