PALEO200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Geologic Time Scale, Species Complex, Canis
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> era of european expansion. new animals and plants from all over the world were being brought to europe by the ship load. they were being named different things by different scientists. > it was in in this mess of thousands of confusing and overlapping names that carl linnaeus emerged. Only exception to this rule are if organisms were given the same name as another, which does happen by accident from time to time. Or if the organism wasn"t really a new species at all. in this case, it gets lumped back in with the old species. Which of these publications is somewhere you could name a new species: the wall street journal, b) time magazine, c) national geographic magazine d) nature: > how many species of non-avian(non birds/dino) dinosaurs do you think have been named so far: so far somewhere around 1000 species of dinosaurs have been named. the exact.