Scientists announce Top 10 New Species from 2012
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 04:00
in Biology & Nature
An amazing glow-in-the-dark cockroach, a harp-shaped carnivorous sponge and the smallest vertebrate on Earth are just three of the newly discovered top 10 species selected by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University. A global committee of taxonomists—scientists responsible for species exploration and classification—announced its list of top 10 species from 2012 today, May 23.