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Naming Life: The Race to Classify Millions of Unidentified Species

Feb 19, 202554 min
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In 2023, scientists discovered thousands of unknown life forms in the Pacific Ocean. The discovery highlighted an unsettling fact: 86 per cent of land species and 91 per cent of marine species remain undiscovered. Are we running out of time to classify the life around us?

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