Australia has added 750 new species of plants, animals, fungi and other organisms to its official list of species living on the continent.
Updated September 13, 2024 at 14:43 PM ETNow, the western laughing frog and a spider named for Tom Hardy are among the 750 new species recognized on the continent.Melbourne-based wildlife ecologist Euan Ritchie says 750 new species may sound like a lot, but that number is just the tip of the iceberg.The western laughing frog is the 248th species of frog identified in Australia. It laughs rather than croaks.native species remain ‘to be described’,” Ritchie says.
“The females have pouches, but they have these extraordinary, pointed, flat heads,” Ritchie says. “And that’s because they live between these cracks in the soil, literally.” Ritchie says taxonomy — the science of describing what species are and categorizing them — is essential to conservation.
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