Good morning.
It’s thunderstorms ahead for the Whippet City, with a high temperature of fifty-nine.
There are myriad animals and plants on earth, and more species are being discovered all the time. Arizona State University has dedicated an institute, the International Institute for Species Exploration, to cataloguing new discoveries. They’re out with their 2011 list of Top Ten Species Discoveries. Explorers have come upon previously unrecorded animals like a barking spider, pollinating cricket, Louisiana pancake batfish, and a bioluminescent mushroom.
What’s that batfish look like? Exotic and other-worldly, only it’s from among the diversity of this world:
Image courtesy Arizona State University.