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This is Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello.Your minute begins now.

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"The Creator would appear¡ endowed with a passion for stars, on the one hand, and for beetles on the other."

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That quip from biologist and atheist J.B.S.Haldane in 1949 is really about the extraordinary number of beetles researchers had characterized, some 300,000 at that time.

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Now we know of about 400,000 beetles.

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And scientists have just added 98 previously unlisted beetle species to that tally, as well as one rediscovered species thought to be extinct.

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The beetles hail from Bali, Java and Lombok in Indonesia, showing once again that islands can be major cradles of biodiversity.

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The 99 species can be found in the open access journal ZooKeys, and in the leaf litter of Indonesian forests.

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But those forests are falling, to make room for people and palm oil plantations.

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With the forests go the forest creatures, including unique fauna like these newly discovered beetles.

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And there no doubt exist many, many more unknown species, as the tropical forests of Indonesia remain largely unexplored,

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despite expeditions since at least the time of naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, co-discoverer with Darwin of evolution via natural selection.

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The question is, will deforestation wipe away the other unknown insects, and nematodes, microbes and other uncharismatic microfauna before we had a chance to know them?

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Your minute is up, for Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello.

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