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Newly Discovered Species Time!

User Image bleimanb | September 21, 2009
As you all probably know by now, we here at Zooillogix do not officially consider a species to exist until it is discovered by Western (or at least Western-trained) scientists. Here are some species that now, officially, exist for the first time. The 3-foot long Bosavi woolly rat is "quite a handsome beast," Kristofer Helgen of the National Museum of Natural History, told National Geographic. It can be found around Mount Bosavi in Papua New Guinea. The Kuranda tree frog speaks in a quick tap, leading researchers to name it the "fast talking frog." It lives in the tropical Queensland,…