Animals That Seem Identical May Be Completely Different Species

Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 10:29 in Biology & Nature

Animals that seem identical may belong to completely different species. This is the conclusion of researchers in Sweden who have used DNA analyses to discover that one of our most common segmented worms is actually two types of worm. The result is one of many suggesting that the variety of species on Earth could be considerably larger than we thought.

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