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Article: New Species--Keep On Counting!(scientists sighting 13,000 new species a year)
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- Science World
- Article date:
- February 8, 1999
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Just Found After Possibly Millions of Years On Earth: A shaggy, red-bearded monkey that swings among treetops in the Brazilian rain forest. A wild ox with pointed horns that bounds nimbly through Vietnam's mountain underbrush. A tiny fish that nibbles slime from coral reefs.
No, not freaks of nature. Rather, new species that scientists have never--ever--laid eyes on before. From Vietnam to the African Congo, scientists are now sighting about 13,000 new species every year. Like detectives combing for hidden clues, scientists may be gathering new evidence to the unsolved mystery of life's diversity, and doing so at the fastest rate in history.
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