The Korea National Park Service announced that it found Galloisiana sp., which is one of the world's rarest species as a live fossil insect. KNPS has investigated the distribution of its habitat and ecology and published some of the results in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America.

Going through the glacial period after the latter part of the Cambrian period, the fossil insect Galloisiana sp. has survived in certain habitats in spite of changes in climate and geography for millions of years. Its main habitats are alpine regions, surfaces of snowy fields, the neighborhood of swamps in glacier areas and a forest of rotten old trees, etc. 28 Species are distributed globally and 6 species are reported to inhabit in the Korean peninsula -- 4 in South Korea and 2 in North Korea.

It is meaningful that the species has been found in Baekdudaegan areas with abundant ecological diversity such as Odaesan, Baekdusan and Myohyangsan. While other countries have actively researched Galloisiana sp. so as to place it on the IUCN Red List of threatened species, Korea has not been sufficient in conducting such research. Thus, the announcement of the paper by the National Park Research Institute under KNPS is significant, finding out the influence of Gallosiana sp. on biodiversity. The director of the National Park Research Institute said the institute will exert efforts to make national parks play a role of repository of biological resources.