On photo hosting Flickr, an insect species unknown to science was discovered.

Once Californian entomologist Sean Winterton came across an unusual photo of a green golden-eyed bird, a small insect from the order of retina-winged insects, on the Internet. She had a characteristic dark pattern on the wings - Winterton had never seen anything like it before. Just like his colleagues, to whom he sent a link to these photos.

By contacting the author of the photos, he found out that the photo was taken in the jungles of Malaysia by a photographer and tourist named Cac Hawk Ping. Unfortunately, at the end of the photo shoot the insect flew away, but a year later, Winterton received a letter from the photographer. It turned out that he had not forgotten about their conversation and, once again in the same area, he caught an unusual golden-eyed eye.

The insect container was sent to the London Museum of Natural History, where another reputable entomologist, Steve Brooks, confirmed the discovery of a new species and found a similar unidentified specimen that had lain for several decades in the museum’s repository. A new species called Semachrysa jade.

Every minute more than three thousand images are uploaded to the Flickr servers, and publicly available digital cameras are of sufficiently high quality so that any detail can be seen in the smallest detail. And the final touch - Winterton, Ping and Brooks, while on three different continents, worked together on an article about the discovery for ZooKeys magazine using Google Docs. In an interesting time we live!
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Wikipedia article on Semachrysa jade .