World's Smallest Kangaroo Found

An anonymous reader writes "What may be the smallest member of the kangaroo family is among a batch of new species discovered in the remote forests of New Guinea. From the article: 'Kangaroo expert Dr Euan Ritchie, of James Cook University in Queensland, told Australian Geographic that the new species may represent a major find. "It is indeed possible it represents the smallest known kangaroo species, and it would seem certain it's new to science," he says. "If this is true, it's a truly spectacular find."'"

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Someone is smoking some good gear.

[RockDoctor]

It is not yet confirmed to which family the new species belongs, and Euan is hesitant to take a guess. "Using morphological information in isolation from genetic information (DNA), to describe a species, would be very dicey indeed," he says.

Is that whirring sound that I hear Carolus Linnaeus rotating rapidly in his grave? Or, for that matter, any other taxonomist who was working before approximately 1995? Or for that matter any palaeontologist, working ever.

I'd say more, but it would be superfluous. I'll just say [/self : clicks "submit" button while shaking head]