scientists have identified more than 500 new species in 2020, including scarab beetles from New Guinea and a new type of monkey found on an extinct volcano in Myanmar.
Experts from the Natural History Museum in London have discovered a huge number of species previously unknown to science including new lichens, wasps, miniature tarantulas and a lungless worm salamander.Dr Tim Littlewood, executive director of science at the Natural History Museum, said: "In a year when the global mass of biodiversity is being outweighed by human-made mass it feels like a race to document what we are losing."Five hundred and three newly discovered species reminds us we represent a single, inquisitive and immensely powerful species with the fate of many others.
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