The New Brunswick Museum's annual BioBlitz revealed several new species of lichens, fungi and slime molds in the province during its two-week data collection tour.
Dozens of researchers and biologists spent two weeks in the Nepisiquit protected natural area near Mount Carleton Provincial Park collecting data on new or undescribed species.
Don McAlpine, research curator of the zoology department and head of the natural science at the museum, said they found lichens that are new to New Brunswick.
They also found fungi and several species of slime molds that haven't been reported in the province before.
"We won't know in its entirety what we found for probably — it could be six months up to three years if it takes that long to work up the material," he said. read more
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