Science
How we discovered three new species of penguin in the Southern Ocean – Malaysia Sun
The discovery that gentoo penguins are actually four distinct species has important implications for their conservation.
When you think of scientists discovering new species, you might imagine searching the Amazon rainforest for new types of insect or the depths of the ocean for undiscovered crustaceans. But these days most new species we discover are found hiding in plain sight.
Such hidden species can look so similar to their relatives that they arent obviously a different species, yet are revealed as such based on differences in their DNA. These discoveries are made not by travelling the globe but in molecular…
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