Smooth operators turn to phone book to name new beetle species
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 11:57
in Paleontology & Archaeology
By Stephanie PappasLiveScience What do you do when you run across hundreds of nameless species of beetle in the wilderness of New Guinea?No, the correct answer is not "run away screaming" — at least if you're a scientist dedicated to discovering the massive diversity of insect life. Instead, researchers from the German Natural History Museum Karlsruhe and the Zoological State Collection in Munich ...