Transcript: Interview: Kevin Omland discusses an error made on the program two weeks ago about the discoveries of new species

SHEILAH KAST
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
04-10-2005
Interview: Kevin Omland discusses an error made on the program two weeks ago about the discoveries of new species

Host: SHEILAH KAST
Time: 1:00-2:00 PM

SHEILAH KAST, host:

And now a correction and an amplification.

Many listeners wrote in following our story two weeks ago on the discovery of a new species of fairy shrimp. The introduction to the story incorrectly stated that decades had passed since the last time a new species had been identified in the United States. Aysha Prather of the department of biology at the University of Memphis anticipated the volume of letters in our e-mail bag. `How many irate entomologists, ...

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