Topic: Photos: "Glass" Crustacean Among Hundreds of New Species

[sam]

Called Thalassiosira trifulta, the diatom was discovered as part of an ongoing project to catalog animal diversity on the Korean Peninsula (map). Split into three three-year phases the Korean biodiversity initiative started in 2006 and is slated to run until 2014.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/07/photogalleries/100723-new-species-south-korea-science-pictures/?now=2010-07-23-00:01#south-korea-new-species-thalassiosira_23483_600x450.jpg

[Clive]

You seem to have more than a passing interest in the microscopic world and paleontology alike Sam!   

[Simon]

I wonder who gets to name all these new species?

[sam]

You seem to have more than a passing interest in the microscopic world and paleontology alike Sam!   

I do quite like both of these subjects, not sure I could have ever really been bothered to study biology but paleontology has always fascinated me. You know how it goes, kids like space and dinosaurs... space won for me but that interest in all things old and strange has always kept my interest. Probably why I come here.

[sam]

I wonder who gets to name all these new species?

A guy called Dave.

[Simon]

[Clive]

interest in all things old and strange has always kept my interest. Probably why I come here.