New Species and New History

Summary:  On January 18, 2012, a there were 19,232 new species of living things found by people from Arizona State University. Fifty-point-six percent or 9,738 of the species found were insects. The second largest group was of 11.3% which was vascular plants. This was found in 2009 however.  All of this includes the finding of 7 new bird species, 41 mammals, and 1487 new species of arachnids and mites found.  The ASU entomologist and the species finder institute leader Quentin Wheeler explains that since 2009, they have found twice as much living species than Carolus Linaeus a Swetish Botonist who found new species 250 years ago. Since the 2million species fount up to 1758, there has been 10 million new species of living things found that includes Quentin’s discoveries.

Impact: These discoveries could lead to much more discoveries such as a new cure for cancer by a special blood of an animal. Also, people have adapted and survived in certain places by learning from living things and depending on them.  Just like people depending on camels to help you get through the desert, or fallow animals to find food, or eat the animals. Many of the new species could help us learn about how our planet works, and to understand evolution and producing better.

Critique: I love watching animal planet and survivor man. Animals help your mind grow by learning the new ways of living things’ life and how much more there is in the world. What I love is to know how things work and in this small world we live in, still get thrills of learning new things in the world like everyone else. Whatever the living thing is, it’s all so cool! I’m planning to find a species of a new bird that throws up gold, can have babies that are rainbow, and speak fluent English! Anything’s possible if not all the living things have been found yet! :D 

Sites: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120118173248.htm