News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 year ago
A tiny animal some scientists thought was extinct reared its precious head in Indonesia recently, and a team of American scientists was there to make the discovery. The pygmy tarsier, a nocturnal primate, had not been seen alive in almost a century.
News Source: CNN
| about 1 year ago
Scientists have found a wide-eyed primate -- a clawed fur ball that fits snugly in one hand -- in the first live sighting in more than 80 years of a creature that some thought was extinct. Over a two-month period, scientists working in Lore Lindu...
News Source: Fox News
| about 1 year ago
And scientists thought the pygmy tarsier ( Tarsius pumilus ) had possibly gone extinct. Then, in 2000, two Indonesian scientists who were trapping rats on Mt. Rore Katimbo in Lore Lindu National Park in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, reported they had...
News Source: The Globe & Mail
| about 1 year ago
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail November 19, 2008 at 4:00 AM EST It looks like a tangerine-sized cross between a furry Furby and a gremlin, and hadn't been seen alive since the 1920s...Scientists believed these tiny primates, weighing less than two...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
animals , horses , rescue , burros , wild mustangs The Center for Disease Control (CDC) named Burlington, Vermont as the healthiest city in the United States. The CDC made their selection from a long list of criteria, but I discovered a...
News Source: Xtra News
| about 1 year ago
On a misty mountaintop on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, scientists for the first time in more than eight decades have observed a living pygmy tarsier, one of the planet's smallest and rarest primates. Over a two-month period, the scientists used...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
Several scientists believed they were extinct until two Indonesian scientists trapping rats in the highlands of Sulawesi accidentally trapped and killed a pygmy tarsier in 2000. Sharon Gursky-Doyen, working with one of her graduate students, Nanda...