Insects Top Newly Discovered Species List

Friday, January 27, 2012 - 17:00 in Biology & Nature

An annual inventory of newly discovered species lists more than 19,000 –  half of them insects. A total of 9,738 insect species were first identified in 2009, the most recent year of data compilation. And that's not even counting spiders.

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