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Top 10 Newly Discovered Species

Including a mushroom named for SpongeBob

By Dustin Lushing,  Newser Staff

Posted May 27, 2012 9:17 AM CDT

(Newser) – Roughly 18,000 new species were discovered last year, and scientists at Arizona State University have compiled a list of their 10 favorites. A sample, from the Arizona Republic:

Click for the full list.
SpongeBob SquarePants has a mushroom in his name.
SpongeBob SquarePants has a mushroom in his name.   (AP Photo/Nickelodeon, file)
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Burrito7
May 27, 2012 4:24 PM CDT
Leave it to Newser to illustrate a story about amazing animals with an image of ... SpongeBob. Very lame. 
Mad
May 27, 2012 10:37 AM CDT
A blue, GLOWING, HUGE spider was just now discovered?  Seems they weren't looking too hard!
JackNelsonSteward
May 27, 2012 10:03 AM CDT
"the size of a sausage" "Vienna" or "Kielbasa?"

 
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