Tag: Species

  • Photo of the Day

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    Following is one of the hundreds of amazing, bizarre, and often-overlooked animals in Ross Piper’s new book, Animal Earth, that he’d like to see get some more attention. Humans have cataloged as many as 1.5 million species of animals, and Piper said there may be as many as 200 million more species still undiscovered. “We know a…

  • Beautiful Translucent Snail Discovered in Croatian Cave

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    Found these beautiful images and information about a new species of snail discovered in Croatia on the EarthSky website: Scientists discovered a new species of a peculiar cave-dwelling snail in one of the 20 deepest cave systems in the world, Lukina Jama–Trojama in Croatia. The newly discovered species belongs to a genus of minute air-breathing…