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2013 Event - In Sri Lanka, a researcher discovered Poecilotheria rajaei, a new species of tarantula slightly smaller than a dinner plate, with a leg span of eight inches

2013 Event - Lazarus Project scientists reveal that they successfully recovered frozen tissue from the 1970's and rejuvenated the cells of Rheobatrachus silus, a species of frog that has been extinct since 1983

2012 Event - A new species of freshwater fish are discovered; the new species of darter fish, Etheostoma obama, are named after U.S. President Barack Obama

2012 Event - In the Philippines, four new species of freshwater crab are discovered; the crab are bright purple in color

2012 Event - Scientists discover two new species of prehistoric penguins, Kairuku waitaki and Kairuku grebneffi, which stood over five feet tall

2011 Event - A previously unknown species of bottlenose dolphin is identified by researchers at Australia's Monash University, who named it Tursiops australis

2011 Event - In South Africa, scientists find Australopithecus sediba skeletons are 2 million years old, suggesting the hominid species could be a transitional fossil between apes and humans

2010 Event - Russ Mittermeier and colleagues in northeast Madagascar, confirm a new species of fork-marked lemur in Madagascar

2010 Event - A new species of ancient crocodile, Khoratosuchus jintasakuli, is identified by a fossil in Thailand

2010 Event - The Census of Marline Life 10-year study reports that 230,000 species of animal live in the world's oceans

2010 Event - Scientists announce the discovery of three new animal species that spent their entire lives without oxygen; the species are phylum Loricifera

2009 Event - A new species of a giant carnivorous plant, Nepethes attenboroughii, is discovered in the central Phillipines highlands

1997 Event - Span scientists announce new human species in 780,000 year old fossil

1975 Event - U.S. Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species

1973 Event - President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law

1943 Birthday - Alan Rudolph, actor, Endangers Species, Love at Large, Made in Heaven

1941 Birthday - Glenn Randall, Jr., stuntman, Species, Mrs. Soffel, Return of the Jedi

1894 Event - 1st comic strip "Origin of a New Species," by Richard Outcault

1882 Death - Charles Robert Darwin, evolutionist, Origin of Species', dies at 73

1859 Event - Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species"

1848 Birthday - Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist, How species emerge

1809 Birthday - Charles Darwin, England, discovered evolution, 'Origin of Species'

1712 Death - John Luyken, poet/etcher (species company), dies at 63

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