About 500,000 Australian species are undiscovered – and scientists are on a 25-year mission to finish the job
- Written by Kevin Thiele, Adjunct Assoc. Professor, The University of Western Australia
WikimediaHere are two quiz questions for you. How many species of animals, plants, fungi, fish, insects and other organisms live in Australia? And how many of these have been discovered and named?
To the first, the answer is we don’t really know. But the best guess of taxonomists – the scientists who discover, name, classify and...





