When Terry Irwin collected beetles from a tree to catalog the species, he found that ____ of the individual beetles he collected belonged to species not yet described.

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When Terry Irwin collected beetles from a tree to catalog the species, he found that ____ of the individual beetles he collected belonged to species not yet described. ​

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Terry Irwin's study in the 1980s revealed that a significant majority of the beetles collected from a single tree species were previously undescribed, highlighting the vast biodiversity and the potential number of undiscovered species in tropical rainforests.

When Terry Irwin Collected Beetles from a Tree to Catalog