The need to name all forms of life: 60 new species of dragonflies described from Africa

Friday, December 11, 2015 - 14:55 in Biology & Nature

Only a fifth of the nine million species of animal, plant and fungus thought to occur on earth is known. Dragonflies (which include damselflies) are seen as well-known. Nonetheless researchers describe 60 newly discovered species, the greatest number of new dragonflies in about a century.

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