New bat species discovered in Philippines
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A new species of flying fox or fruit bat has been discovered on an island south of Manila, it was reported Monday.
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NEW YORK Scientists from India working in the Himalayas have discovered a new species of monkey, a stocky, short-tailed, brown-haired creature they have named the Macaca munzala, or Arunachal macaque.
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Scientists believe they have found two new undocumented mammals -- a pygmy possum and a giant rat -- in the jungles of a remote mountain range in Indonesia's Papua province, a conservation group said.
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Gene Simmons, eat your heart out. A newfound bat's tongue can stretch to one and a half times the length of its body, and now scientists think they know why.
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A new species of bird has been discovered in north-east India, according to an ornithological journal.
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Dozens of new species of animals and plants including a catfish with protruding teeth and a tree frog with striking bright green eyes have been found in the past year in the forests of Borneo, a WWF report said on Tuesday.
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By ELIANE ENGELER GENEVA - Scientists have discovered at least 52 new species of animals and plants on the southeast Asian island of Borneo since 2005, including a catfish with protruding teeth and suction cups on its belly to help it stick to rocks, WWF International said Tuesday.
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[World News]: New York, Dec 16 : India has once again proved itself as the land of contradictions as scientists have now discovered a new species of monkey in Arunachal Pradesh, despite the fact that India has some of the fastest retreating forest lands.
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The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Wednesday announced the discovery of 11 new animal and plant species in a remote area of central Vietnam.
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Three new species of salamander are discovered in a remote forest reserve in Central America.
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BANGKOK, Sept. 18  Â Scientists combing through undersea fauna off Papua province in Indonesia said Monday that they had discovered dozens of new species, including a shark that walks on its fins and a shrimp that looks like a praying mantis.
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SCIENTISTS have discovered a new species of flightless bird on a remote island in the Philippines, the conservation group BirdLife International said yesterday.
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A bird species new to science is found by researchers on a remote island in the Philippines.
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In a Feb. 13 story about a fossil of a previously unrecognized bat species, The Associated Press reported erroneously when the species lived. The bat species lived about 52 million years ago, not 25.5 million.
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Twenty new species of sharks and rays have been discovered in Indonesia in a five-year survey of catches at local fish markets, Australian researchers said Wednesday.
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Many more species are probably yet to be found in pristine jungle in Indonesia's Papua province, where two mammals believed to be new to science were discovered in June, an Indonesian zoologist and a conservationist said.
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The most primitive bat ever discovered could fly but not navigate by sound, scientists have reported.