At least 36 new species of flora and fauna were found in the Colombian Amazon by a team of researchers who documented their work in three departments in southern Colombia.
The Colombia BIO Apaporis Expedition 2018 delivered a study with 8.114 records, identifying 2.335 different species of flora and fauna, among them the 36 that are «possible new species for science», according to the ANSA agency. In addition, another 63 species were declared as «endemic», since they only exist in that Wonder of Nature.