Pezoporus Flaviventris - New Species Of Ground Parrot Discovered
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 - 11:50
in Paleontology & Archaeology
It used to be that broader understanding of zoology meant intuitively that new species would be harder to find and so it followed that there would be fewer of them when found - that is the nature of rarity. Now, because newer species are so rare, it is fashionable to label them nearly extinct even though they have just been discovered and so may not have been prolific any time in recent memory, or at all. It can be a little numbing to the general audience. - when everything is rare, nothing is (see special snowflake). read more