Hypotrigona kleineri
Another view of the stingless bee species Hypotrigona kleineri, with the yellow color of the amber filtered out. “It seems trivial on a planet with millions of species to sit back and go, ‘Okay, well, you documented two stingless bees that were lost,’” Michael Engel said. “But it’s really far more troubling than that.” Visual: Seckenberg Natural History Museum

Discovered in Collections, Many New Species are Already Gone

Scientists are increasingly seeing evidence of “dark extinction” in museum and botanical garden collections. By Undark's Katarina Zimmer.

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