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Earth Might Be Home to 20 Million Insect Species—More Than Three Times as Many as Previously Thought, a Study Suggests smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ #science

Researchers came up with the new count by studying insect biodiversity in a conservation area in Costa Rica.Smithsonian MagazineEarth Might Be Home to 20 Million Insect Species—More Than Three Times as Many as Previously Thought, a Study SuggestsRecent estimates have come to the consensus that our planet hosts roughly six million species. But new research reveals that those counts may be drastically underestimated
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