New frog species leaves scientists' fingers yellow

spoop · 1 day

Hopefully it's not endangered!

jabouree · 5 days

I think he's going to eat it.

rhett-butler · 5 months

Why would pet collectors want to participate in making a species go extinct?

dielemma · 5 months

The article says: A part of the weasel family, the new species is known as a ferret-badger, a strange subfamily of mammals that have been little-studied by researchers.

dielemma · 7 months

One day perhaps they will even be able to identify canopy animals. Skies the limit.

dielemma · 7 months

Let's not give them any ideas!

dielemma · 10 months

What a lovely animal. Looks like a muppet bird!

rhett-butler · 10 months

Most animals are smarter than we long thought! Suck on that, Descartes.

spoop · 11 months

Can they discover new tree species this way?

Roat35 · 12 months

Check out the massive photo!

dielemma · 12 months

It often takes a few years to write and get published the paper describing the new species. These are species officially described in 2010.

dielemma · 12 months

1) Because it's awesome. It hops like a grasshopper.

2) I like that the world is still full of millions of wondrous species. Give it a century or two and much of this may be gone.

dielemma · 1 year

Best part: "This new 2-inch long leech is named Tyrannobdella rex, which means 'tyrant leech king', because of a resemblance to the extinct T-Rex: both share a massive jaw and gigantic teeth. If the story of this leech couldn't get any weirder it was discovered in the nasal mucous membrane of a person while visiting a clinic in Peru. At least their likely discomfort made scientific history."

twolf1 · 1 year

If Brazil passes this new forestry law, they will lose control of deforestation after working for decades to lower the rate. Hello, climate change, species extinction, and loss of ecosystem services!

rhett-butler · 1 year

A 473% increase over last year during the same month!

jabouree · 1 year

Pretty soon they'll will be nothing left in Indonesia. Tigers, rhinos, elephants, orangutans, and thousands of other species will be gone. And future generations will wonder what the hell happened?

insiderscoop · 1 year

They sacrificed themselves!

rhett-butler · 1 year

Does Google Earth remind anyone else of the Eye of Sauron? But in this case in a non-evil way?

Designthing · 1 year

How did these people take the reigns of power?

From article: "US Republicans are virtually alone in the world in supporting a party-wide view that climate change simply isn't occurring, according to Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change."

Roat35 · 2 years

The question then is will Republicans in the US one day be forced to shift left--especially on issuses like the environment, gay rights, education, and healthcare--to stay in the game at all? For example, conservatives in Britian are currently undergoing such a shift to stay relevant.

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