Everett, Washington’s Herald today publishes a summary ("Researchers find 100 new species off Hawaii") on the discovery of 100 new species found recently in the remote French Frigate Shoals in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands:

"There were lots of organisms that people were saying, ‘Wow! What’s that?’" said Joel Martin, a zoologist for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Researchers returned from the voyage Sunday with at least 1,000 species of invertebrates, including worms, crabs and sea stars. About 160 unique species of seaweed were also found. Among the discoveries are multicolored worms; a bright purple, foot-long sea star; and a hermit crab that dons a sea anemone and sports shiny golden claws.

Certainly not cryptozoological, per se, but interesting to know some of the details of the frequent thrown-away comment – "Yeah, lots of new species are discovered every week."

In a similar vein, on Wednesday evening, November 1, 2006 (check your local listings), on PBS Channels, a program called "Wild Chronicles" has a second-season premiere that visits the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado, as well as discussing the Hawaiian monk seal, and the search for new species in Guyana’s jungles.