New Species Found

August 29, 2008

We constantly hear the world is losing hundreds, and even thousands of species every day to extinction. It is a sad and sobering thought to realize that we (humans) are responsible for destroying so many species and driving them to extinction.

Yet in the middle of all that, there is also a little bit of good news. Against all odds, scientists are discovering many new animal species. They have discovered not one, but two NEW never before discovered species hidden inside a tropical forest in New Guinea. A tiny little mini pygmy possum called the Cercartetus pygmy and a huge giant cat sized rat called the Mallomys were found by scientists in the Foja Mountains in western New Guinea.

In the Saba Bank, Netherlands Antilles, two new species of soft corals were discovered.

Conservation International announced the discovery of 24 new species in Surinam, including the wild looking Antelopus Frog.

The Jimbaran Shovelnose ray (fish) has been discovered in Indonesia.

A new deep water copepod species was recently discovered.

A four pound rock lobster which is a new species, was also recently discovered along with a giant tube worm new species that lives 8,000 feet deep in the ocean.

A new species of mouse was discovered on Cypress, called the Cypriot mouse.

In an isolated Indonesian jungle scientists discovered dozens of new species of frogs.

The Kiwa Hirsuta is a new species of crustacean that was discovered recently in the hydrothermal vents of the Pacific Antarctic Ridge. It looks like a tiny white furry lobster.

The smoky honeyheater is a new species of bird found in the Papua Provence in Indonesia.

Scientists found six new species in a remote forest of Afica, including a bat, a rodent, two shrews and two frogs.

A new species of leopard with the largest fangs of the cat family was recently discovered deep in the Borneo rain forest.

In the Monterey Submarine Canyon at 2,100 feet scientists have discovered a new species of jellyfish called the granrojo (Spanish for big red). Its a big red blob between 2-3 feet that floats through the dark underworld of the ocean gobbling up its prey!



So though we sadly are losing many unique and distinctive animal species each day on the planet, its good news to learn there are still new species left for us to discover (and hopefully not destroy!).

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