‘Salsa dancing’ spiders, tiny crabs dressed in sea sponge, and chest-bursting wasps are among some of the 626 new Australian species scientists discovered in the past 12 months.
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek said that scientists are discovering and naming about two new species every day.
“We have only discovered named about a third of the species found in Australia,” Plibersek said in a statement on March 20.
Australian Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek speaks during House of Representatives Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra on Feb. 15, 2023. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch)
While Australia has less than one percent of the world’s population, it has around eight percent of the world’s plants and animals….