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1 trillion species on Earth

Anonymous Fri 24 Apr 13:11:56 2020 No.11598152 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11598184 >>11598187 >>11598392 >>11598420 >>11600208

>99.999% of all species on Earth have yet to be discovered
https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=138446

Holy shit, how do they even know this? That's pretty cool though, it means anyone could go out and discover a new species

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Anonymous Fri 24 Apr 2020 13:26:04 No.11598180 Report

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i discovered your mom last night

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Anonymous Fri 24 Apr 2020 13:28:03 No.11598184 Report

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>>11598152
It was a typo, should have read "speckles". They already apologized.

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Anonymous Fri 24 Apr 2020 13:30:19 No.11598187 Report

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>>11598152
>discover a new species
the boundaries between species are wherever tradition and some old grey expert in the field say they are, all this finding suggests is that bacteria might be more genetically diverse than expected.
>get a bacterium identical to 1,000,000 other bacterial species named after you
Go you.

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Anonymous Fri 24 Apr 2020 14:54:39 No.11598380 Report

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>>11598187
How do you know it's mostly bacteria?

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Anonymous Fri 24 Apr 2020 14:59:05 No.11598392 Report

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>>11598152
Yet there are no significant gaps in the fossil record of "evolutionarily transitional" species. So weird how that happened...

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Anonymous Fri 24 Apr 2020 15:00:11 No.11598396 Report

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>>11598380
Do you see any new megafauna walking around, dumb ass?

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Anonymous Fri 24 Apr 2020 15:03:39 No.11598404 Report

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>>11598396
They're probably in unexplored regions of Earth

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Anonymous Fri 24 Apr 2020 15:16:57 No.11598420 Report

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>>11598152
It's almost all just slightly different looking bugs.

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Anonymous Sat 25 Apr 2020 00:24:08 No.11600208 Report

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>>11598152
Poor definition of species. Politics has intervened to make habitat a part of the definition. So that if I discover one rat living on my property, it is a unique species, deserving of Endangered Species protection. And I can't develop my land. Even if my neighbor's barn is infested with them.

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Anonymous Sat 25 Apr 2020 00:32:40 No.11600233 Report

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>>11598420
Nope, its almost all microscopic, living spheres and rods that are all slightly different.

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