OMG! THis is HUGH!!!1!! New Animal Species Found in Calif. Caves

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060118/ap_on_sc/new_species

New Animal Species Found in Calif. Caves

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - Twenty-seven previously unknown species of spiders, centipedes, scorpion-like creatures and other animals have been discovered in the dark, damp caves beneath two national parks in the Sierra Nevada, biologists say.

"Not only are these animals new to science, but they're adapted to very specific environments — some of them, to a single room in one cave," said Joel Despain, a cave specialist who helped explore 30 of the 238 known caves in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.

The discoveries included a relative of the pill bug so translucent that its internal organs are visible, particularly its long, bright yellow liver. There was also a daddy long legs with jaws bigger than its body, and a tiny fluorescent orange spider.

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Way COOL!
BUGS!!!

And so many have yet to be explored.

Creepy crawlies don't excite me, per se, but I think it's interesting that we're hearing about NEW discoveries of lifeforms....given that usually what we're hearing about are species dying away due to weather changes, etc.

where, in my perception of the state, much if not most had heretofore been trampled on or investigated.

;)

A lot of the state is totally developed, but a lot of the state is totally wild.

and that ain't what it takes.


Seriesly,

That;s cool.

We don't know how much we don't know.

So to speak.

"We don't know how much we don't know". I don't know how you know that, but I know that you're right. :P

That pix of the scorpion is scary cool.

Not only that, what we know has been known for many years.

"Cool! I wonder what color they are when you squish them?" :evilgrin:

(because he's too lazy to get out of bed and post on his own damn computer :rofl:)