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New Mammal Species Found in Borneo
lemonysam writes "The BBC is reporting that a new mammal species has been discovered in Borneo by a conservation group trying to document the local species, as part an effort to prevent the destruction of their habitat by logging and agriculture. The species, which has not been identified by local experts or the indigenous population, is roughly the size of a domestic cat and is believed to be carnivorous."
What does it taste like?
What are you listening to? (http://megamanic.blogetery.com/)
I just HAVE to have a coat with this critter's fur as trim.
Not as endanged as proper spelling on slashdot.
Time for bed...
The species only actually sprung into existence about a year ago. You can tell that, because the local people still don't remember seeing it. Soon, the locals will remember it, complete with a history and folklore. By then it may be real enough that it can exist as a zoo specimen, rather than a mere couple of blurry photos.
Even now, its fossil ancestors are probably forming spontaneously in the rocks of Borneo.
Haven't you ever heard of the X-Men? Not only did this thing recently evolve, it probably has adamantium claws and super regeneration.
-Da3vid-
...the Chupacabra to me!
Let me be the first to say: that's not actually funny. Is it even a joke?
Why would a mammal cause France to surrender? What's the historical analogy? Is this from the Fox News version of "The Daily Show"? What gives?
You can't create jokes by adding cliches to news stories.
New mammal found : "It's A Trap" says Akbar -- not funny
New mammal found : "GWB can't pronounce its name" -- not funny
New mammal found in Indonesia : US Govt pleased since they won't have to ship it to Indonesia in order to torture it as a Terror suspect -- not funny
Don't give up the day job.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Its a Pokemon!
Sent from my ASR33 using ASCII
However, the long and muscular tail, as well as other features of the nose and digestive system, are covered under several broad Microsoft patents. Extermination is expected to commence shortly.
xkcd.com - a webcomic of mathematics, love, and language.
"The photos look most like a lemur," he told the BBC News website. "But there certainly shouldn't be lemurs in Borneo."
Tell that to the fucking lemurs in Borneo.
Was it just me, or did the image of the new mammal first look like a tiny brontosaurus?
Obviously a very, very small Bigfoot.
Cress, cress, lovely lovely cress
Narrator: Bigfoot: Endangered Mystery! In the dense forests of the Pacific Northwest dwells the strange and beautiful creature known as Bigfoot, perhaps.
Fry: That proves it!
Narrator: Sadly, logging and human settlement today threaten what might possibly be his habitat, although if it's not, they don't. Bigfoot populations require vast amounts of land to remain elusive in. They typically dwell just behind rocks, but are also sometimes playful, bounding into thick fogs and out-of-focus areas. Remember, it's up to us. Bigfoot is a crucial part of the ecosystem, if he exists. So let's all help keep Bigfoot possibly alive for future generations to enjoy unless he doesn't exist. The end!
does it run (Fe)Linux?
I'll get my hat....
In the not too distant future, next Sunday A.D.
BBC TV reported that there was some debate over what the new beastie should be called. The leader of the team which discovered it was one Stephan Wulffraat.
I know what my money's on.
For a second I saw a dinosaur in that, until I discovered the eyes and tried to see the "Not a lemur" thing. (ofcourse Dinosaurs aren't lemurs!)
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
no posts welcoming our new feline-marsupial hybrid red-furred overlords? for shame...
I am very sucseptible to "let's have another drink"
You mean it wasn't endangered before we found it, but now that we have it's DOOMED! Right?
I find new species all the time in my fridge :> One of them ate my domestic cat.
Tux2slack
to any reasonably well informed slashdot reader.
;)
Ah, now *that* would be proof of Intelligent Design, right there!
You are new here, aren't you, boy?
Oh sure -- you eat one conservationist, and they tag you a carnivore.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."--Feynman
> The Earth doesn't have a particular prejudice against
;)
> plastic. Plastic came out of the earth.
ah yes. i remember sitting around the fire as a wee little lad, listening to my grand-pappy tell us about his days in the ol' west virginia plastic mines. tough work, that was.
http://kered.org
Don't worry about the details. His post was just an excuse to claim he has a girlfriend.
Well, let's assume someone does find Voyager and explores the records of our civilisation that it carries. They decipher the symbols. The notation. The waveform encoded in a spiral groove on a disc of gold. You know what they'll find? The last song of all human culture to survive intact and playable in the universe?
Deep down Louisiana close to New Orleans, way back up in the woods among the evergreens, there stood a log cabin made of earth and wood where lived a country boy named Johnny B Goode, who never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play a guitar just like ringing a bell...
Happy now? I think it's very comforting. We may be long extinct, our world evaporated, our sun shrunken and fading, but whatever unimaginable alien intelligence finds our capsules will at least know that, for a while, we were here and we rocked.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
My bad - the two links I was thinking of (Killer Dino Turned Vegitarian and Dinosaurs Got Munchies For Grass do not refer to T. Rex. (Mind you, they don't completely rule it out, either. "Indiscriminate eaters" is an interesting term.)
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)