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."

Comments

NEW WINTER FASHION

[blueadept1]

I just HAVE to have a coat with this critter's fur as trim.

Continuous creationism

[Julian Morrison]

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.

Re:"recently evolved"

[Da3vid]

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-

Messed up logic

[Anonymous Coward]

"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.

Brontosaurus

[macaddct1984]

Was it just me, or did the image of the new mammal first look like a tiny brontosaurus?

Re:New "species" of "mammal"?

[meringuoid]

Ok, see now, your just depressing me :)

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.