Olinguito:
'Overlooked' mammal carnivore is major discovery
By Jane O'Brien BBC News, Washington DC
Scientists in the US have discovered a new animal living
in the cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador. It has been named olinguito and
is the first new species of carnivore to be identified in the Western
hemisphere in 35 years.It has taken more than a decade to identify the mammal,
a discovery that scientists say is incredibly rare in the 21st Century.
Read rest see pic here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23701151
Which
all means there are still big discoveries to make ...what next? bigfoot perhaps?
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