[metacognative]

I must have missed something. Where is the observed new species? Besides a different shade of bacteria?

[curiosity]

Most observed speciations have occurred in plants. There have been a few in the animal kingdom, though. Including a new species of mouse, which split off from its parent species in about 250 years. This website includes a bunch of speciation examples:

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html

[furball4paws]

"a different shade of bacteria?"

As a microbiologist, I'd like to know what this means.