New species discovered: Hog-nose rat

Tuesday, October 6, 2015 - 13:50 in Biology & Nature

A new genus and species has been discovered on a remote, mountainous island in Indonesia. This new discovery is the third new genus described by this group of scientists since 2012, and identifies a rodent with features never seen by the scientific community before.

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