While biodiversity loss threatens our planet’s biological diversity at alarming rates of up to 58,000 animal and plant species per year, there are also positive developments: every year, scientists describe thousands of new species. On average, around 18,000 new life forms are documented—including not only living organisms, but also extinct
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The northern pudu (Pudella mephistophila) is closely related to the newly discovered Pudella carlae from the Peruvian Andes—the first living deer species from the New World to be described in more than 60 years. (© Wikabyel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
