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In 1818, naturalist Constantine Rafinesque set out on a little trip down the Ohio River, exploring the still very young western United States. These areas were settled, but still developing, and very much new to science. In fact, science itself was fairly new and the fields of biology and taxonomy were also still developing.
A new study, co-authored by Yale's Eric Sargis, finds barking hyraxes small, herbivorous mammals to be a separate species from their shrieking neighbors.