1,000 new species discovered in Southeast Asia

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Shepperd

#21 December 18, 2008, 12:02:31 am

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Quote from: ase on December 17, 2008, 11:50:10 pm

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#22 December 18, 2008, 03:46:21 am

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Quote from: Mince Wobley on December 17, 2008, 07:22:08 pm

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Time is relative.

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Farren

#23 December 18, 2008, 04:49:52 am

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Quote from: Doktormartini on December 17, 2008, 09:32:54 pm

This is cool. Let's not fuck this up, considering around 100 species go extinct each day.

poor buny rabits

maybe we should all stop eating meet so we can save all the rare buny rabit

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#24 December 18, 2008, 06:44:54 am

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On this note, they discovered a species that they thought to be previous extinct in August.
It's really fucking cool looking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmy_Tarsier

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olrox

#25 December 18, 2008, 06:59:47 am

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the dragon millipede is really amazing........................

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#26 December 19, 2008, 04:47:09 pm

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That dragon millipede thing looks gross and deadly as fuck. That's sick.

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Dale Gobbler

#27 December 19, 2008, 05:10:36 pm

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Quote from: Wikipedia

"Lesser Spectral Tarsier"

Who names these?

That centipede is probably the most cool thing found so far, but I would still like for there to be actual new types of animals/plants found and not just variations of existing creatures.

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Ragnar

#28 December 19, 2008, 05:48:32 pm

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pygmy tarsier looks like a mid-1980's lovable movie mascot

like the guy from Gremlins... and probably something else

Edit: Don't know a way other than 'mascot' to describe what I mean that it's not a cartoon and just appears with normal people in the movie

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#29 December 19, 2008, 05:56:56 pm

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081124-giant-squid-magnapinna.html

This thing was only recently discovered as well. Jesus it looks like a boss from Metroid or something.

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#30 December 19, 2008, 07:28:53 pm

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Quote from: Mama Luigi on December 19, 2008, 05:56:56 pm

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081124-giant-squid-magnapinna.html

This thing was only recently discovered as well. Jesus it looks like a boss from Metroid or something.

no those have been known for a while.

and also guys these are really cool even if 1000 is a number to scoff at

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#31 December 19, 2008, 07:30:03 pm

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shit, that is really cool

edit: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/photogalleries/species-photos/ - These are pretty cool. I especially like the rhino beetle, michelin-man-plant, and sleeper ray

Last Edit: December 19, 2008, 07:34:33 pm by ase

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Mama Luigi

#32 December 20, 2008, 02:33:25 am

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Quote from: earl chip on December 19, 2008, 07:28:53 pm

no those have been known for a while.

Uh... no? The article is dated November 24th?

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#33 December 20, 2008, 03:38:32 am

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if you read the article you'd find that it's not claiming the squid's new (cause it's not, just pretty rare) and it's just saying "that vid you took? it's this squid." also the video is a year old.

all this stuff is still cool though! i thought the rhinoceros beetle was old! why would anyone name a plant after the michelin man.

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#34 December 20, 2008, 06:23:51 am

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there are a lot of rhinoceros beetles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chalcosoma_atlas.jpg) but this one's new! but pixar apparently knew about it because there was a character that looks exactly like it in a bug's life.

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Mongoloid

#35 December 20, 2008, 06:30:43 am

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I read about this in the news before this topic was made and it mentioned a spider as big as a dinner plate. I'm not finding anything about that anywhere now though.

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