Dozens of new species found in Sierra Nevada

Thursday, January 19, 2006

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. -- Twenty-seven previously unknown species of spiders, centipedes, scorpion-like creatures and other animals have been discovered in the dark, damp caves beneath two national parks in the Sierra Nevada, biologists say.

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