'Hidden' species may be surprisingly common

[Aaron LeClair]

‘Hidden’ species may be surprisingly common



Personally, I read about new species being discovered around weekly, sometimes a couple times a week.

 

[spookyparadigm]

"'Hidden' species may be surprisingly common"

The headline is misleading.

It's really about how classification based on visual clues increasingly does not jive with genetic classification. If anything, it deflates future claims of lots of species being discovered. Not because they aren't being discovered, but because in many cases, they are known animals being reclassified based on better evidence.

 

[spookyparadigm]

"'Hidden' species may be surprisingly common"

A big impact I could think of is that this shakes up the fossil record a bit in terms of using bones as indicators of species. But rather than decreasing the number of species of say hominids, what it might do is increase the number that are otherwise visually indistinct. But without DNA, you can't know.

 

[Aaron LeClair]

"'Hidden' species may be surprisingly common"

The headline is misleading.

It's really about how classification based on visual clues increasingly does not jive with genetic classification. If anything, it deflates future claims of lots of species being discovered. Not because they aren't being discovered, but because in many cases, they are known animals being reclassified based on better evidence.

It's misleading in the sense that if they are discovered, they aren't hidden