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September 13, 2012 02:04 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/M29CVxE6k3I/new-monkey-isnt-so-much-ne.html
New monkey isn't so much "new" as "newly documented in a scientific journal"
When somebody says that a new species has been discovered, it's easy to get the impression that this is an animal nobody has ever seen before. But that's usually not exactly what scientists mean. Take the lesula (or Cercopithecus lomamiensis), an African monkey whose "discovery" is making headlines this week. While it does seem to [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/M29CVxE6k3I/new-monkey-isnt-so-much-ne.html
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