NatureWrap: New to the tree of life
Plus two clever birds and tips on hibernating.
Pictured above is
Hippocampus nalu, Africa’s first and only-known pygmy seahorse and one of 213 newly described plant and animal species added to the tree of life this year by the Californian Academy of Sciences.
Its colleagues include 101 ants, 22 crickets, 15 fishes, 11 geckos, 11 sea slugs, 11 flowering plants, eight beetles, eight fossil echinoderms, seven spiders, five snakes, two skinks, two aphids, two eels, one moss, one frog, one fossil amphibian, one fossil scallop, one sea biscuit, one fossil crinoid (or sea lily) and one coral.
Credit: Adolf Peretti, GRS Gemresearch Swisslab
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