Tuesday, June 26, 2012

New Philippines Ant Species

  • About 40 new species of ants have been discovered in the Philippines, ant researcher David General and his colleagues recently announced. The previously unknown species belong to 11 different genera, the taxonomic classification above species.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • About 40 new species of ants have been discovered in the Philippines, ant researcher David General and his colleagues recently announced. The previously unknown species belong to 11 different genera, the taxonomic classification above species.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • About 30 percent of all currently known ant genera have been recorded in the Philippines, with a land area roughly the size of Italy or Arizona. At least 474 species of ants are known from the archipelago.
  • (New Kerala)
  • Named one of the new Seven Wonders of Nature The park is home to hundreds of species of birds, mammals and reptiles such as the cockatoo, peacock pheasant, hornbill, the bearcat, the scaly ant-eater and the small clawed otter.
  • (Nation - Thailand)

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