There May Be Three Times More Insect Species Than We Realized

Scientists may have drastically underestimated the insect kingdom. According to Nautilus, research suggests there could be three times more insect species than we currently know about — most of them entirely undiscovered. With insects representing the vast majority of all animal life, this revelation underscores just how much of the natural world remains hidden from science.

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