<p>This undated handout image provided by the National Museum of National History in Paris, France, shows a blind new species, distantly related to the squat lobster family, which was found in 2005 in hydrothermal vents where the East Pacific Rise meets Antarctica. We live in a much wilder world than it looks. A new study estimates that Earth has almost 8.8 million species, but the vast majority of those species are types of animals yet to be discovered. And they could…
August 24, 2011
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August 24, 2011 9 p.m.
It's a wild, wild world
Millions of unseen species fill the Earth
WASHINGTON - Our world is a much wilder place than it looks.