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The latest State of Observed Species report is out. And biologists might have just earned the title of Hardest-Working People in Science, discovering a staggering 19,232 species in just one year, including nearly 10,000 new types of insects. To put that in perspective, when Carl Linnaeus began his taxonomic organization of all known species in the 1750s, there were only 10,000 known species. In 2009 alone 鈥?the most recent year the repor
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