140 new relatives to our world!

in the year of 2011, researchers at the California Academy of Sciences added 140 new relatives to our world. The new species include 72 arthropods, 31 sea slugs, 13 fishes, 11 plants, nine sponges, three corals, and one reptile. This just goes to show that there are still plenty of places to explore and things to discover on Earth. These creatures were found all over the world. People had to go through great lenghts to find these. They went to six continents (all except Antarctica) and three oceans (Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian), to find them. This is important to our society because it lets us know more about the world we live on.