New species -- big whoop
ASHEVILLE (AP) — A 10-year study has found more than 6,000 species of plant and animal life previously unidentified in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The Asheville Citizen-Times reported today the All Taxa Biodiversity Project also discovered nearly 900 species that are new to science. The results of the study were discussed Monday during a Senate subcommittee field hearing in Asheville.
The project began in 1997 to inventory all species in the park which covers more than 800 square miles in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. More than 1,000 scientists have studied species in the park, identifying a total of more than 16,000.
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And not one of these thousands of effing new species excretes some sort of incredibly efficient, clean-burning fuel on which I can run my car for less than $4 a gallon?
Great. Big whoop.*
* These comments may not represent Mr. Killian's true views on nature and may, instead, be informed by an intense post-gas-station-fill-up bitterness.
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