A NEW species of baleen whale has been discovered. The stunning find, made after researchers studied the body shape and genetics of a few leviathan skeletons gathering dust for the past 25 years in a museum in Japan, reinforces just how little we still know about the world’s fauna, including its greatest mammals.
The announcement, which comes in the week that the IUCN, the World Conservation Union, released its latest list of the world’s endangered species (see “Red alert”), also highlights a growing problem in conservation science. We are in the midst of a major rethink about what constitutes…
