1368: How do you find a ‘lost’ species?
The earth is facing a biodiversity crisis, and there’s a lot of attention on species that are threatened, or at risk of dying out completely. But, there’s another critter category that’s a little more mysterious: species that are “lost to science.” This means scientists aren’t quite sure how many of them there are out there—or if there are any left at all.Producer Kathleen Davis talks to biologist Matt Forrister, who is so dedicated to finding more information about these lost species that he created a whole scientific journal about them.Plus, 28 of the 178 firefly species in the United…
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