?Kingdom of the ant?: northern Australia boasts more than 5,000 species

?It?s the global centre of diversity,? says insect scientist who found 27 species of ant in two days in Kakadu national parkAlan Andersen has been collecting and recording specimens of Australian ant species for 40 years with about 8,000 of them glued to cardboard triangles in a government laboratory in Darwin in the country?s far north.Each year hundreds of specimens are added to the collection, most of them likely new species that don?t even have formal scientific names. Continue reading...