The giants squirrels have been known to scientists for almost 130 years - but was previously thought to be a single very rare species living mostly in remote valleys in Pakistan.
Australian Museum
Two new species of gigantic woolly flying squirrels discovered in the Himalayas
International team led by Australian scientistsProfessorKristofer Helgen and Dr Stephen Jackson and Chinese scientists Professor Xue-Long Jiang and Dr Quan Li
Sydney, 31 May, 2021: High in the Himalayan Mountains lives one of the world’s rarest mammals, the woolly flying squirrel (Eupetaurus cinereus). This beautiful squirrel is more than a 1 meter (3 feet) long, weighs 2.5 kg (5 pounds), and spends its life gliding through mountain forests. Though known to scientists for almost 130 years, it was previously thought to be a single very rare species living mostly in remote valleys in Pakistan.
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A new species of bird discovered in Brazil has a green head, yellow belly, and a high risk of going extinct soon
I would have been fine with just the green head and yellow belly, honestly.
An international team of ornithologists reports discovering a new species of bird in north-eastern Brazil. Sadly, the forests it calls home have been almost completely cut down.
The black-throated trogon (Trogon rufus). Image credits Moisés Silva Lima.
The new species has been christened the Alagoas black-throated trogon (
Trogon muriciensis), and is part of the Trogonidae family of tropical birds. Comprising around 43 species and almost 110 subspecies, the trogons are some of the most colorful birds in the world at least, the males. They sport patterns of various colors including iridescent green, blue, violet, and purple, with bright red, orange, or yellow abdomens. The females have to make do with gray or brown feathers.