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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello.Your minute begins now.
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2 ."The Creator would appear¡ endowed with a passion for stars, on the one hand, and for beetles on the other."
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3 .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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4 .Now we know of about 400,000 beetles.
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5 .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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6 .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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7 .The 99 species can be found in the open access journal ZooKeys, and in the leaf litter of Indonesian forests.
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8 .But those forests are falling, to make room for people and palm oil plantations.
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9 .With the forests go the forest creatures, including unique fauna like these newly discovered beetles.
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10 .And there no doubt exist many, many more unknown species, as the tropical forests of Indonesia remain largely unexplored,
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11 .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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12 .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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13 .Your minute is up, for Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello.
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