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A rare wolverine has been documented in the Tahoe National Forest by a researcher from Oregon State University working with colleagues at the U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Southwest Research Station – the first confirmed sighting of the animal in nearly three-quarters of a century.
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William J. Zielinski, a research ecologist with the Pacific Southwest Research Station, [...]

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It was the size of a small dog, covered in orange and gray fur, and had a long snout like an elephant. Its markings and general appearance suggested it was a member of the elephant-shrew family, called a sengi in Swahili. Today, the Journal of Zoology reports that Rovero discovered a new species of giant [...]

National Geographic
A previously unknown species of uakari monkey was found during recent hunting trips in the Amazon, a New Zealand primatologist has announced. Jean-Phillipe Boubli of the University of Auckland found the animal after following native Yanomamo Indians on their hunts along the Rio Aracá, a tributary of the Rio Negro in Brazil.
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Uakaris normally live [...]

BBC
Almost every tree in Britain is likely to be home to a Barkfly, and now a new family member has come to stay – all the way from the Atlantic Islands.
The Barkfly, Atlantopsocus adustus, which has no English name, has been found colonising stretches of Cornish coast.
The tiny fly may have reached Britain on [...]

WWF
A WWF survey has discovered several marine turtle nesting sites on the beaches of Senegal, prompting calls from conservationists to improve protection of the endangered species.
The survey — conducted by WWF staff, Senegalese wildlife officials and the local community between July and September — discovered nine new green turtle nests on the beaches of Joal-Fadiouth [...]

Discovery Channel
A swimming sea cucumber, a Nemo-like orange fish and a worm with tentacles sprouting from its head are among dozens of possible new species found during a survey of the Celebes Sea, researchers said Tuesday.
A team of U.S. and Filipino scientists plunged up to three miles underwater in early October in an area that [...]

WWF
Spanish authorities have announced the discovery of a previously unknown population of Iberian lynx, triggering hope for the world’s most endangered cat species, said WWF.
It appears that the new population was discovered in previously unsurveyed estates in the Castilla-La Mancha region in central Spain.
At present, the exact numbers and location of the newly discovered population [...]

scienceblogs
This new species was recently found in eastern Brazil. The bird was captured, studied and its vocalizations were recorded by ornithologists. The data collected from these birds, particularly this species’ vocalizations, have been used to write a formal scientific description of this new species.
Even though this lovely little bird was first observed in 1997, it [...]

WWF
Scientists have discovered 11 new species of animals and plants in a remote area in central Vietnam, WWF said today.
The species were found in the Thua Thien Hue Province — a region known as the Green Corridor. They include two butterflies and a snake, as well as five orchids and three other plants, all of [...]

reuters
At least 20 tigers have resurfaced in a tropical rainforest in western India, almost three decades after it was thought that poaching had wiped them out there, experts said on Tuesday.
The big cats were sighted over an 800 square kilometer (300 square miles) mountainous forest range in the western state of Maharashtra, bringing rare good [...]