Below are some recent (mostly 2008) discoveries that expend our understanding of the dimensions of life. Some are big. Some are small. They all count.

Giant toothless dinosaur species discovered, Hundreds of new species found in Antarctica, New (extinct) penguin species discovered in New Zealand, Number of known flying lermur species doubled, Earthworms may be twice as diverse as thought previously, Two new species of Bacteria found in the catacombs, New Iguana discovered in Fiji, World's m ost ancient living ant lineage discovered in the Amazon, New catalogue of flies in and out of ointment, New bacterial species found in your mouth (o.k., not your mouth, but at least in some guy's mouth who was paid ten dollars to participate in the study), World's smallest snake species discovered in Barbados, New fungus species found by mycologist in downtown Aberdeen, Scotland, New coral reefs found in Brazil, Census of marine life discovers hundreds of new species (and then, like everybody before them, suggests that they are almost half done finding all marine life and will finish the job by 2010), More bee species than there are mammals + birds, New catfish species discovered (and named for mailman), New family of geckos discovered, New spider species named after Neil Young (because systematists are bored of having to come up with more and more names), New tapeworm species named after Uconn chancellor (depending on your view of the chancellor or tapeworms, this is self-explanatory, First lungless frog discovered (breathes uneasy), New bird species discovered,

and then under the, not all discoveries are good news category...

New species of Ebola virus discovered.

If you have other recent discoveries you think deserve mentioning, email me at Rob_Dunn "at" gmail.com with the title "discovery."