Home › Contributors › Andrew Wetzler › Tags › newspecies
Andrew Wetzler's Blog
Tags: newspecies
All contributor posts tagged newspecies
February 29, 2008
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Reviving the World's Oceans
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
- Tags:
- carpetsharks, endangeredspecies, IUCN, newspecies, overfishing, redlist, shark, wobbegong
Researchers in Australia recently announced the discovery of two new species of wobbegong (or carpet) sharks, which they have named the "floral banded wobbegong" and "dwarf spotted wobbegong." As the name suggests, the dwarf spotted wobbegong is a smaller cousin...continued→
November 7, 2007
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
- Tags:
- newspecies, peccary, species, wildlife
When you think about and write about endangered species a lot, it's easy to become, shall we say, discouraged. That's why it's always welcome news whenever a new species is discovered. We too easily assume that human beings have discovered all...continued→
