Critically endangered monkey and armored slug among 503 new species named in 2020
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(CNN) A monkey that lives on the edge of an extinct volcano, an amphibian that breathes through its skin and an armored slug are among the 503 new species named by London s Natural History Museum this year.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the museum may have been closed to the public for the longest duration of time since World War II, but researchers continued to toil behind the scenes, according to a news release published Tuesday.
These hundreds of new species have been described in 2020 by researchers working with specimens from the museum s vast collection.
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A new dark green species of mineral has been discovered by scientists examining a rock which was mined in Cornwall around 220 years ago.
Kernowite, named after Kernow - the Cornish language word for the county - was found by a team at London s Natural History Museum, led by Mike Rumsey.
The mineralogist said: A lot of these discoveries happened over 100 years ago when the mines were still active. So the discovery of a new mineral from
Cornwall, particularly one that related to the regions most famous mineral, is really quite amazing. Image: Mike Rumsey said the discovery is really quite amazing . Pic: Natural History Museum
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