We share our planet with maybe 10 million species of plants, animals, birds, fish, fungi and bugs. And to help identify them, millions of people are using a free phone app. “Currently we have about six million people using the platform every month,” said Scott Loarie, the executive director of iNaturalist, a nonprofit.
Has anyone made a cool discovery using the app? “It happens all the time,” Loarie said. “Almost every month we get a new species described.
Using the iNaturalist app. CBS News One of his favorites stories involved someone in the Andes whose cabin was invaded by a weasel: “He grabs his camera. The first-ever photographs of these species, and they happen to be sitting on a toilet in this cabin. I’m very proud to say that #ToiletWeasel was trending on Twitter after that!”
But it turns out that this app
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