Tuesday, December 27, 2005

New Carnivore Discovered

This month the World Wildlife Fund announced that its researchers had discovered a new mammal species in the rainforests of central Borneo. The animal was "caught" by a camera trap and you can see the photos on their website. WWF claims that this previously unknown animal could be a new species of civet or marten or an entirely new branch of the Order Carnivora. CCN also has a small article on this story.

A story like this always amazes me. Animals are constantly being discovered but almost never large carivores. It just goes to show that the natural world isn't completely mapped out.

1 Comments:

At 6:37 PM, Blogger x said...

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Check out this link about new species in caves in CA and NV.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/01/18/new.species.ap/index.html

 

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