New Species of Giant Fish Discovered In Brazil

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http://www.hngn.com/articles/14914/2013 ... brazil.htm

Makes you wonder just how many animals have yet to be discovered. Fascinating.

This fish looks remarkably like our local Australian Barramundi
I'm surprised we don't have a section in WP for science related stuff (not the boring IT techie things)

86% I just read in some other place, though it beats me how they know something exists to be discovered if they haven't discovered it yet?
Still, scientists, you gotta trust them.

virtually all of those "estimated 86 percent of species remaining to be discovered" are insects, and microbes, and the like.

Not large vertabrates.


There are fewer species of big things to begin with. And they tend to get discovered and catalogued faster than do the bugs.

So persumably very few species of big things remain to be discovered.

So the fact that they still do find new species of big things (like that new antelop in Vietnam a few years ago, or this 200 pound fish) is surprising.

Supposedly on an island there's a huge ape , he's as tall as several buildings

What we need is an invasive species that tastes good.

We got a snake headed crawler on the East Coast, Asian Flying Carp in the Mississippi, and everything in Florida.

So far the Python seems the best eating. Catching them, before they catch you is the problem.

Could we arrange a fresh water lobster invasion?