This article from livescience.com talks about recent discoveries of new species in the Himalayas.
I particularly like the 2″ wasps deadly enough to kill a yak. Next time I go to Taiwan, I’m not going to quite as worried about the nasty 1.5″ wasps they have there.
They’ve also discovered new species of mice, monkeys, frogs and several insects. It really reminds us just how unexplored some parts of the world still are.
I remember when I was in 5th grade (30+ years ago) I asked my teacher (who was a science buff) why it wasn’t possible that there was some remote corner of the Earth where dinosaurs still existed, and he told me that the Earth had been so well explored everywhere there just wasn’t any place left to find anything new.
OK, a wasp is not as big as a dinosaur, but still…
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