Why there`s been a boom in discovering new species despite a biodiversity crisis
(World News Science)

One of the four newly discovered titi monkeys from Southern Amazon, Brazil. Diogo Afonso Silva , Author provided Something of a boom in the discovery of new species is taking place right now. It is so significant that some say it is similar to the period of the 18th and 19th centuries when European naturalists ventured into newly discovered lands and brought back an astonishing number of exotic new plants and animals . But how can this be so when species worldwide are disappearing at unprecedented rates? This is the dichotomy Earth finds itself in as it enters a new chapter in its history - the Anthropocene Epoch , a time marked by the significant global impact that humans are having on the...