Category: chameleon
Dr. Andy Marshall spotted a helpless little creature being eaten by a twig snake. With the courage and strength often associated with ecologists, Dr. Marshall rescued a new species of chameleon from the jaws of certain death. Well, actually he and his team startled the snake, causing it to drop the chameleon where Marshall's team then picked it up.
Dr. Marshall and his cohort Michele Menegon named the species Kinyongia magomberae (the Magombera chameleon).
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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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Posted by Benny Bleiman at 1:29 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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Posted by Benny Bleiman at 5:15 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: fish
Here are two videos of the Histiophryne psychedelica in action.
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Posted by Benny Bleiman at 5:22 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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.
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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.
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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!
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Posted by Benny Bleiman at 3:41 PM • 18 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.
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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.
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