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Top 10 new species announced for 2015

Reflections on Science  |  Published: 22 May 2015

A cart wheeling spider, a wasp with a killer maternal instinct and a feathered dinosaur are just some of the […]

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Discovering all creatures great and small – not impossible

In the News  |  Published: 25 January 201325 January 2013

Naming ALL animal and plant species on earth is a realistic goal, claim researchers who estimate that all such life […]

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Kiwi scientist judges “Top 10 new species” of the year

In the News  |  Published: 24 May 201224 May 2012

A New Zealand scientist has helped select the “Top 10 new species” of the year, with winners announced by Arizona […]

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NZ Herald: Ocean dwellers miss the census

In the News  |  Published: 09 August 2010

Geoff Cumming writes in the New Zealand Herald about a recent report which says that, at a time when our […]

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