ginlindzey

I have a love of the biological sciences. In high school I had thought about studying marine biology in college, in part to learn how to scuba dive. But then my brother went to college and for a while we thought he was going to major in scuba diving. He beat me to it, and I was an *original* (also the youngest and therefore did NOT want to do anything else like my siblings) plus my heart was leading me into the liberal and fine arts arena.

However, that hasn't dampened my interest in nature.

Today a colleague posted a link to the top ten new species. Here's the link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/13500847

Just a quick glance at these names will make you proud of the role Latin plays in binomial nomenclature:

1) the pancake batfish (Halieutichthys intermedius)
2) the Phillipines fruit-eating Golden spotted monitor (Varanus bitatawa)
3) the pollinating cricket (Glomerremus orchidopilus)
4) Darwin’s bark spider (Caerostris darwini)
5) the bioluminescent mushroom (Mycena luxaeterna)
6) Walter’s duiker (Philantomba walteri)
7) the underwater mushroom (Psathyrella aquatica)
8) a new leach found in a person’s NOSE! (Tyrannobdella rex)
9) a little jumping cockroach (Saltoblatella montistabularis)
10) a new bacterium found on the Titanic (Halomonas titanicae)

The pictures are really, really cool. Take a look!