"Leaproach" discovered in South Africa

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This year's list of new species also includes a glow-in-the-dark mushroom and a leech with enormous teeth



The South African cockroach has been named as one of the world's top 10 news species. The "leaproach" was discovered in the Table Mountain National Park by scientists from the University of Cape Town. (Mike Picker / University of Cape Town)

May 26, 2011, 9:20 a.m.
JOHANNESBURG— A leech with enormous teeth sounds like a horror movie special effect, but according to an annual list of new species, it really exists. It joins a glow-in-the-dark mushroom and a spider that can create giant webs on this year's list.

But the new species that has scientists excited this year is out of South Africa.


Scientists there say they've found a new species of cockroach in a popular tourist destination.

Cape Town's Table Mountain National Park is home to the world's only jumping cockroach, which this week was named one of the top 10 species discoveries of the year by an international panel of experts.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-fgw-new-cockroach-20110526,0,7373440.story

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. and I thought nothing could be worse than flying cockroaches

ick! :scared:

[rocktivity]

2. Among the ten species are two new species of mushroom

One glows in the dark:


the other can grow underwater:


Are they edible? It doesn't say...

Source: CBC News Online

:scared:
rocktivity

[Warpy]

3. Ugh. South Africa can keep it.

Florida already has flying cockroaches and those are likely to spread as the planet warms up.

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. You know, it always bothers me when they say 'new species'

instead of 'newly discovered species'.

Makes it sound like Gawd is up there somewhere saying "I don't think there's enough kinds of cockroaches on Earth - I'll put a new one in South Africa".

[qazplm]

5. could be either

new speciation happens from time to time, or maybe some cockroaches and grasshoppers got busy! :P