GHSA Cheerleading State Championships Day 2 Session 1 - Class 5A and 3A
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World's Smallest Salamander Found in Georgia
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Researchers have made a startling discovery in northeast Georgia … the world’s smallest salamander.
Discovery of the “patch-nosed salamander” represents the first new genus of four-footed animals described in the U.S. in 50 years.
And Georgia has another new distinction.
The recent discovery helped push Georgia to number one in the nation for salamanders.
Fifty-eight species live here.
They make up one-tenth of the world’s known species.
Experts say the diversity is largely because of the state’s large size, its five physiographic regions and its share of the moisture-rich Southern Appalachians.
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