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Submitted by maing on 5/30/2008

Science articles and top ten lists are usually big on Digg, so it’s a surprise that this one didn’t make it to the homepage. This particular submission was buried deep down in the queue at around 30 diggs. Not much visibility there.

An international committee of scientists took the thousands of species discovered in 2007 and condensed it into a single list of the ten most “surprising.” Their intention was to “attract people’s attention on biodiversity, taxonomy and the importance of natural history museums and botanic gardens in a fun way [emphasis in italics added].”

Original Description:

Each year the scientific community identifies around 17,000 new animals and plants. To attract people’s attention on the discovery of species, a key for their evolution, survival and conservation, an international committee of experts has just published a list of the 10 most curious and surprising species described in 2007

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