"A common use of Flickr is to find photos. But what about finding a new species of insect? Insect biosystematist Dr. Shaun Winterton discovered a photo on Flickr of a green lacewing taken by Hock Ping Guek (known as Kurt on Flickr). The insect was not identifiable as a known species to Winterton, and after collaborating with the photographer, a specimen was collected in the Malaysian rainforest. Further examination showed that this indeed was a new species. The discoverers named it Semachrysa jade. The discovery was published in ZooKeys and the abstract reads: A charismatic new species of green lacewing discovered in Malaysia (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae): the confluence of citizen scientist, online image database and cybertaxonomy."
Nice design. Crap colors.
MY GOD. THIS IS THE NOT THE FIRS THING I'VE TAGGED WITH BOTH "puns" AND "hairdresser."
Photograph number 2^31-1 was the first photograph in Flickr not to fit in a 32-bit integer and it, any photo after it, broke quite a few programs that interacted with Flickr.