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In the wild, Andrew feeds on fish, sponges, small crustaceans, nematode worms and protozoans.
Benny's diet is very specialized, consisting mainly of the interior of Ramy nuts, nectar from the Traveller's Palm tree, some fungi and insect grubs. He is also known to raid coconut plantations, and has been seen eating lychees and mangoes, which are also plantation crops.
Category: new species
Found in Queensland, Australia, this meat-eating marsupial has been dubbed the Agile antechinus, which means "very fast enemy of China" in Latin.
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Category: dolphin
A new species of dolphin dubbed the snubfin has been witnessed displaying some very unusual feeding behavior off the northern coast of Australia.
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Category: dracula fish
A new kind of fish with Dracula style fangs has been discovered...in a fish tank that researchers had been keeping for a year.
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Category: fish
Here are two videos of the Histiophryne psychedelica in action.
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Category: new species
Keeping with Zooillogix's official policy, because the creatures are now known to Western science, now and only now can we all consider them to exist.
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 6:34 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Catfish
Though scientists have actually known about a strange climbing catfish from the jungles of Venezuela for 20 years, it took them until last month to capture live specimens and officially name the creatures.
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 3:07 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: new species
Researchers have released the findings of a ten year study into the wildlife of the Greater Mekong River area in Southeast Asia -- Over 1000 new species discovered!
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 3:41 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: new species
The Census of Marine life is the gift that keeps on giving. Here are the latest pics of some new species they've discovered at the bottom of the ocean.
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 2:46 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: ants
Subterranean...blind...predatory...smokin' hot AILF! These are all adjectives that you could use to describe a newly discovered ant from the Amazon rainforest.
Posted by Benny Bleiman at 2:21 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: mollusk
A new species of shrimp-eating bivalve is discovered off Key West. Cool video.
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