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A new and unusual species of frog has been found in New York. Scientists have undertaken genetic tests and have confirmed that it is a new species. Due to their scarcity there have been calls for the frogs to be protected by a conservation order.
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San Francisco -
A new shark species has been discovered in the waters of the Galapagos Islands. The shark is quite small and is probably related to the dogfish family.
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A new carnivore species has been discovered in the marshes of the Lac Alaotra wetlands in central eastern Madagascar. The small, cat-sized, speckled brown mammal has been named Durrell’s vontsira (Salanoia durrelli) by scientists.
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Toronto -
Researcher Jason Gibbs collected a bee from a garden while walking up Brunswick Avenue to the Spadina subway station on his way to York University in the fall of 2006; it turned out to be a new species.
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In Papua New Guinea, scientists have discovered a new species of giant rats in a giant remote rainforest in the country and labelled as the Bosavi Woolly Rat
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From time to time scientists find new species on the planet. Now they have found a flying frog. The delightful creature is the talk of the Internet right now, so there has to be something significant here. Let’s check it out.
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According to a committee of international scientists, ten new species have been discovered, including a pea-sized seahorse, a ghost worm and the world’s smallest snake (4.1 inches).
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A giant palm tree has just been discovered on the Island of Madagascar, this tree flowers once every one hundred years and then dies. The tree produces hundreds of white blossoms and is dead within months.
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People complain about the size of rats in New York City. They haven't seen the Mallomy's Giant Rat of New Guinea. In an area dubbed the "Lost World" researchers have made two recent finds in the jungles.
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There are unknown creatures lurking under the windswept islands of the Aleutians, according to a team of scientific divers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Three potentially new species have been found.
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New species Headlines
Should all new species be kept secret?
Three-week research expedition to Suriname documents 1,300 species, including 46 believed to be new to science.
Scientists say they have spotted a new species of frog living in heavily-populated urban areas of New York in what they call an "amazing" find.
 British scientists have discovered a "lost world" of new species of yeti crab, starfish, barnacles, sea anemones — and potentially an octopus — on the sea floor near Antarctica.
 A monkey that sneezes when it rains and a millipede the size of a sausage are two of 10 new species selected by an international committee of scientists as the most noteworthy discoveries of 2011.
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This Pinocchio-like tree frog species was discovered by fortunate accident when it ventured into a Foja Mountains camp kitchen and perched on a bag of rice, where herpetologist Paul Oliver of Australia's University of Adelaide spotted it. Oliver was unable to find another of these frogs, and suspects that they stay mostly in the treetops.
The male frog's nose, the scientists were surprised to discover, points upward when the animal's calling and hangs flaccid when it's not. "Exactly what it i
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