We’ll never know so much about the world around us that there’s nothing left for naturalists to discover and just to prove that point, scientists recently announced the discovery of a new species (in fact it belongs to a whole new genus) of lungless salamander in the hills of Georgia. Urspelerpes brucei , as it will be known, is the first new genus of four footed vertebrate found in the U.S. since 1961 (another lungless salamander, in fact). You can READ MORE from the BBC or go to the source, the abstract and paper in Journal of Zoology. So get out there and start scrounging around. You never know if the next creature you encounter might be your ticket to immortality! (Immortality among a select community of naturalists, that is.)
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RI BioBlitz 2013 continues
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RI BioBlitz 2013
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2013 RI BioBlitz Orientation
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Using Green Assets to Make Good Land Use Decisions
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Program on Green Infrastructure: Biodiversity, Clean Water AND Economic Activity!
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