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Newly Discoved Species
By: AGelbert Date: January 1, 2015, 8:09 pm
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New Species Galore
A look back at the latest microbes, plants, and animals to have
secured a spot in science’s known tree of life in 2014
By Jef Akst | December 27, 2014
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This new species of elephant shrew (Macroscelides micus) blends
in with the Namib Desert's red soil.
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Researchers discovered a new species of louse-like crustacean on
the bones of a dead whale at the ocean bottom near Antarctica.
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The black-tailed antechinus (Antechinus arktos) is one of the
three new marsupial species discovered in 2014.
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Relicanthus daphneae
This year researchers reclassified what was thought to be one of
the world’s largest sea anemones, to a new order. The species is
now called Relicanthus daphneae.
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Researchers this year branded a new family, called
Dendrogrammatidae, to categorize these sea sponge-like
organisms.
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A new frog species, the Atlantic Coast leopard frog (Rana
kauffeldi) ranges from Connecticut to North Carolina.
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Researchers discovered four new species of burrowing rodents
called tuco-tucos this year in Bolivia.
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Paroedura hordiesi[/I]
A new species of nocturnal gecko ([i]Paroedura hordiesi) was
found living in an old French fort in northern Madagascar.
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Maratus pardus[/I] Courtship Display
A new species of p e a c o c k spider ([i]Maratus pardus) was
identified this year in Western Australia.
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Some of the newly discovered saki monkey species
Researchers this year identified 16 distinctive species of saki
monkeys.
In addition to the Top 10 new species chosen by the
International Institute for Species Exploration this year (which
included a penicillium fungus, a large dragon tree, and a new
carnivorous mammal), dozens of other organisms were recognized
by science for the first time this year.
These discoveries proffer a welcome break from stories of
threatened populations and impending extinctions. Here’s a
selection of notable new species identified in 2014:
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An antechinus
[b]Mammals Abound[/b]
Although there are always one or two newly discovered mammals
that capture the public’s attention each year, 2014 seems to
stand out with several new species of saki monkeys, three new
species of marsupials, four new species of gopher-like rodents,
and a tiny elephant shrew.
“It’s a very exciting time to be a mammalogist,” the Queensland
University of Technology’s Andrew Baker, who led the research
that identified the three marsupials, told The Guardian.
“Typically there’s only a couple of new species of mammals found
worldwide each year. So to find three new species of this
marsupial, all in South East Queensland is really exciting.”
One of the three new marsupial species, the black-tailed
antechinus (Antechinus arktos), had formerly been confused with
a mainland form of the dusky antechinus (A. swainsonii mimetes),
but mitochondrial DNA sequencing confirmed that A. arktos is, in
fact, a distinct species.
A similar story yielded the discovery of 16 distinct saki monkey
species, including five that had never before been observed.
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The tiny species of elephant shrew, also called a round-eared
sengi, was discovered in Africa’s Namib Desert and earned the
title of the smallest member of the order Macroscelidea. In
July, a team led by Scott Gardner of the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln described four new species of burrowing rodents
called tuco-tucos from the Andes mountains in South America.
A whale of a find
A new species of crustacean was found this year on, of all
places, the bones of a dead minke whale at the bottom of the
ocean near Antarctica. British researchers uncovered the new
organisms with the help of a remotely operated vehicle (ROV),
which revealed via a live video feed tiny animals resembling
lice dotting the bare bones of the long-dead whale. The bones
“were absolutely covered in these little critters—there were 500
to 6,000 specimens per square meter,” British Antarctic Survey
researcher Katrin Linse said in an April statement.
The team used the ROV’s robotic arm to collect some of the bones
for further study, and subsequent genetic testing confirmed that
these less than 4-millimeter-long critters did, in fact,
constitute a new species of isopod, now dubbed Jaera tyleri.
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Jaera tyleri
“You could never hope to find a whale fall on purpose—it would
be like looking for a needle in a haystack,” Linse said. “It
gave us a rare opportunity to look at the ecology of these
unique habitats, and which sorts of species settle on them.”
Anemone confusion
One of the world’s largest sea anemones, with tentacles
measuring more than 2 meters long, isn’t an anemone at all.
Instead, researchers discovered this year, it belongs to an
order unto itself. First discovered in 2006 in the deep Pacific
Ocean, new DNA analysis revealed that Boloceroides daphneae does
not fit with other anemones on the tree of life. This prompted a
renaming—the species is now called Relicanthus daphneae—and a
regrouping, with the organism now falling into an entirely new
order within the subclass Hexacorallia.
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[i]Relicanthus daphneae[/i] (This organism now falls into an
entirely new order within the subclass Hexacorallia.)
“The discovery of this new order of Cnidaria—a phylum that
includes jellyfish, corals, sea anemones and their relatives—is
the equivalent to finding the first member of a group like
primates or rodents,” Estefanía Rodríguez, an assistant curator
in the American Museum of Natural History, said in a May
statement. “This amazing finding tells us that we have so much
more to learn and discover in the ocean.”
Meanwhile, a bit farther south, another team of scientists has
discovered a new species of true anemone living on the ice of
Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf, making the organisms the first
reported ice-dwelling anemones. The researchers found thousands
of these small animals (dubbed Edwardsiella andrillae) covering
the underside of the ice shelf, with their tentacles projecting
down into the frigid waters of the Antarctic Ocean. The
discovery was “total serendipity,” said the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln’s Frank Rack. “When we looked up at the bottom
of the ice shelf, there they were.”
A whole new family
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Edwardsiella andrillae
They may look like mushrooms, but these bizarre creatures are
actually more like sea sponges, with their dense, non-living,
jelly-like substance (called mesoglea).
Originally discovered on a 1986 research cruise, some 1,000
meters down in the Bass Strait between Southern Australia and
Tasmania, in September these mesogleal animals earned their own
designation as two new species. What’s more, researchers decided
these two species warranted categorization in an entirely new
family, called Dendrogrammatidae.
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Agelbert NOTE: What would scientists do without Latin and Greek?
;D But yeah, standardization beats calling a life form some
local name like "turd blossom" or "post turtle".
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I checked out some more P e a c o c k Spiders. :o Those
arachnids are definitely among the colorful champions of
biosphere show offs!
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Put on your sun glasses and enjoy!
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They are VERY tiny so you really don't need to worry about
getting bitten by one where they live (Australia). You might
check your ears though. ;D
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Re: Newly Discoved Species
By: AGelbert Date: June 21, 2015, 8:42 pm
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What Is the Oldest Living Thing in the World?
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The oldest living thing in the world is thought to be an ancient
seagrass known as Posidonia oceanic that was estimated to be
approximately 200,000 years old when it was discovered in the
Mediterranean Ocean, from Spain to Cyprus in 2012.
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Posidonia Oceanica, or Neptune seagrass
Scientists believe that the seagrass is able to live so long
because it is asexual. It can reproduce on its own and
essentially clone itself as needed. Over time, as Posidonia
oceanic expands by growing more branches. Each individual patch
of the seagrass weighs about 6,000 tons and takes up about 10
miles (16 km) over the Mediterranean Ocean.
The second oldest living thing is the world is a 43,000 year old
Tasmanian shrub, Lomatia tasmanica.
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Tasmanian shrub, Lomatia tasmanica
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More about the oldest living things on Earth:[/move]
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Jeanne Calment
A French woman named Jeanne Calment is considered the person who
lived the longest in documented history, and was 122 when she
died in 1997.
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Cinachyra antarctica Antarctic sponge
No sponge jokes, please. Show some respect for these long lived
fellow earthlings!
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An Antarctic sponge is thought to be[i] the oldest living animal
[/i]at an estimated 10,000 years old. :o :icon_sunny:
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Great Basin bristlecone pine Pinus longaeva
The Giant Basin Bristlecone Pine tree is the oldest tree, at
over 5,000 years old.
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Re: Newly Discoved Species
By: AGelbert Date: October 3, 2015, 9:27 pm
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First ‘Glowing’ Sea Turtle :o Discovered in Solomon Islands
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by Laura Goldman
October 1, 2015
Some corals are known to “glow” underwater, as do some
jellyfish, eels and more than 180 other fish species.
And now, for the first time ever, it was discovered that
reptiles also have the ability to light up like a Christmas
tree.
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In July, a glowing hawksbill sea turtle — a critically
endangered species – was discovered in the Solomon Islands by
David Gruber, a marine biologist.[/quote]
Gruber was on an expedition funded by the TBA 21 Academy, whose
mission, according to its website, is to “reimagine the culture
of exploration, opening a new chapter in the history of art at
sea.” His intention was to film bioflourescent corals and small
sharks.
Biofluorescence, as National Geographic explains, is “the
ability to reflect the blue light hitting a surface and re-emit
it as a different color.”
This is not the same as bioluminescence, which is the ability of
animals to emit their own light through chemical reactions or
host bacteria.
One night as Gruber was filming a coral reef, the hawksbill sea
turtle appeared “from out of the blue,” he said in a National
Geographic video. He described the turtle as looking like a
“bright red and green spaceship.”
Gruber’s diving partner, TBA 21 Academy Director Markus Reymann,
said in the video that he’d never seen a turtle that calm. “He
was just hanging out with us. I was loving the light.”
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Scientists have only been studying bioflourescence for about 10
years. “As soon as we started tuning into it, we started finding
it everywhere,” Gruber said. “First it was in corals and
jellyfish, then it was in fish – and there it was, this UFO.”
Most bioflourescent animals display only one color, usually
green or red. Corals can display both colors – and apparently,
so can sea turtles, although Gruber said the red could be from
algae on the shell.
The reason why the hawksbill is bioflourescent remains a
mystery. “We know they have really good vision. They go on long
and arduous migrations,” Gruber said. He said they could glow to
find or attract each other.
It could also be a defense mechanism to protect themselves from
predators. Alexander Gaos, director of the Eastern Pacific
Hawksbill Initiative (ICAPO), a nonprofit working to bring this
species back from the brink of extinction, told National
Geographic bioflourescence could serve as a kind of camouflage.
Hawksbills are already sometimes difficult to spot because their
shells blend in with their rocky reef habitat, Gaos said.
According to ICAPO, hawksbills are the only species of sea
turtle with “a brilliantly colored, keratinous shell consisting
of overlapping (imbricated) scutes, colloquially referred to as
a tortoise shell.”
Sadly, its unique shell is what has driven the hawksbill to near
extinction. Along with the dangers facing all sea turtles, such
as getting caught in fishing nets and tangled in plastic bags
and other marine pollution, the hawksbills are the only species
killed for their shells. For centuries, tortoiseshell was used
in jewelry, combs, ornaments and other items.
In 1977, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered
Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) treaty generally put an
end to the tortoiseshell trade. Japan continued to import the
shells until 1991, when it stopped doing so to prevent a U.S.
fish embargo. Unfortunately, the tortoiseshell trade still
continues underground, according to ICAPO.
Because the hawksbill sea turtle is now one of the rarest
species on Earth, finding the reasons for its bioflourescence
will be extremely difficult. Gruber will instead study the green
sea turtle, which is closely related to the hawksbill but not as
close to extinction.
“What’s even more sad about this is these turtles have such a
storied history, and now they’re critically endangered,” Gruber
said.
But there is some encouraging news: Hawksbill sea turtles are
showing signs of recovery in the Arnavon Islands, according to a
study earlier this year by the Nature Conservancy. Because of
conservation efforts, their population has doubled over the past
20 years.
And that’s something we can all glow about. ;D
Read more:
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Re: Newly Discoved Species
By: AGelbert Date: May 6, 2016, 10:12 pm
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[center]Alien-like sea creature discovered 12,139-feet deep near
Mariana Trench [/center]
Published on May 1, 2016
Alien-like jellyfish found near the Mariana Trench resembles a
ghost from arcade game Pac-Man.
A glowing, alien-like sea creature that slightly resembles the
ghost in the arcade game Pac-Man was spotted by researchers as
it floated by their underwater camera during the 2016 Deepwater
Exploration of the Mariana Trench this week.
The bizarre sea creature was discovered by NOAA’s Okeanos
Explorer on Dive 4 at 12,139 feet on the Enigma Seamount near
the Mariana Trench (known as the deepest part of the world’s
oceans with a maximum depth of 36,070 feet). It is located near
Guam in the western Pacific Ocean.
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Re: Newly Discoved Species
By: AGelbert Date: October 29, 2016, 8:35 pm
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Agelbert Note: Yes, it's over a year old. But I had never seen
these new species and you probably haven't seen them either. ;D
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Stunning VIDEO Of Newly Discovered Deep Sea Creatures[/center]
June 15, 2015 by John Konrad
A team of scientists aboard the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer have
mounted a unique crowd-sourced exploration of the largely
unknown deep sea off the coast of Puerto Rico.
The first two legs of their 52-day expedition were spent mapping
the uncharted seafloor. In April, during the mission’s third and
final leg, the scientists’ focus shifted to better understanding
deep-sea ecosystems and found several creatures so new to us,
they don’t even have names. In a total of twelve dives, they saw
100 species of fish, 50 species of deepwater corals and hundreds
of other invertebrates, many of which had never been seen in
their natural habitat.
To get this amazing footage the team sent their ROV down to
depths over 20,000 feet, the deepest dives ever conducted in the
region. It gathered data and recorded video that the scientists
streamed online. The video (above) is breathtaking.
Yesterday the Okeanos Explorer has pulled into San Francisco and
will use the time in port to complete some alongside repairs as
well as process and clean data more of this amazing data. [Via
Quartz]
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Re: Newly Discoved Species
By: AGelbert Date: March 14, 2017, 4:59 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: I'm posting this here because this species has a
newly discovered [glow=green,2,300]ability. [/glow] ;D
[center]A common tree frog has kept a secret for a long
time—[glow=red,2,300] it glows[/glow]![/center]
Elena Motivans March 14, 2017
Sometimes, interesting discoveries occur by accident. At the
Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum in Buenos Aires,
scientists were examining the pigments of a common tree frog.
The polka dot tree frog (Hypsiboas punctatus) isn’t very bright;
its skin is a muted yellow-green colour and it has reddish
spots. However, after examining its skin under UV light, they
found that it, in fact, has fluorescent skin! It glowed a very
bright blue and green. The scientists were naturally quite
shocked. This is the first time that fluorescence has been
observed in amphibians. Although fluorescence is more common in
aquatic animals (corals, sharks, fish, a sea turtle), it is very
rare in land animals, being only found previously in scorpions
and parrots.
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[center]The polka dot tree frog. Top: with the naked eye.
Bottom: with UV light. Image credits: Taboada, C. et al. Proc.
Natl Acad. Sci. USA (2017)[/center]
How does it work? ???
Fluorescence first involves absorbing low wavelength light, to
which frog photoreceptors aren’t very sensitive. Then the light
is emitted at higher wavelengths; the photoreceptors are very
sensitive to these wavelengths. Therefore, there needs to be
light outside for an animal to glow like this. In this regard,
fluorescence is different from bioluminescence. Bioluminescence
does not require any light and is created through chemical
reactions.
The fluorescent molecules that this tree frog uses are
completely unique. No other [glow=red,2,300]fluorescent animal
[/glow]uses anything like them! :o Three molecules, called
hyloin-L1, hyloin-L2 and hyloin-G1, located in the lymph and
skin glands were found to cause this glow. The molecular
structure of the molecules involves a ring and a chain of
hydrocarbons. The most similar molecules to these are found in
plants.
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Why [glow=red,2,300]fluoresce[/glow]?
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The fluorescence contributes 18-29% to the light available in
twilight and night, making the frogs brighter and, perhaps,
helping them to see more. This fluorescence could be used to
communicate, camouflage, or attract a mate, though its true
purpose is not known yet.
This frog is probably not the only fluorescent one out there.
One of the study’s authors, Dr. Julián Faivovich, thinks that it
is likely that other frogs also have this property. The most
promising candidates are the 250 other species of tree frogs
that have translucent skin like the polka dot tree frog. He
encourages other researchers studying tropical frogs to carry a
UV flashlight with them.
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Re: Newly Discoved Species
By: AGelbert Date: May 29, 2017, 5:26 pm
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[center]Incredible new Amazon glass frog is so transparent you
can see its beating heart :o[/center]
LAST UPDATED ON MAY 29TH, 2017 AT 6:46 PM BY TIBI PUIU
Deep in the Amazonian lowlands, biologists stumbled across a
peculiar glass frog species completely new to science. What
makes glass frogs so interesting, unique even, is their chest
which varies in different levels of transparency. This trait is
so pronounced in some individuals that you can see their beating
hearts straight through the limpid chest. Unfortunately, the new
species called Hyalinobatrachium yaku may already be threatened
with extinction by oil exploitations in the area.
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[center]The amazing see-through frog. Credit: Jaime Culebras.
The amazing see-through frog. Credit: Jaime Culebras.[/center]
Glass frog or “see-through frog” is a unique type of frog that
is named that way because of its translucent skin. These usually
live in Central and South America, preferring tropical
rainforests where they rest high in the treetops right above the
water. These unique amphibians are usually tiny, typically 0.78
inches long, though some can reach 3 inches in length.
The body of the frog is usually bright green or olive green in
color, and it’s the belly that’s covered in transparent skin.
Liver, heart, and intestines can be seen when the glass frog is
looked from the underneath.
Glass frogs are arboreal animals, meaning they spend most of
their lives in trees and will come to the ground only during the
mating season which takes place right after the rainy season.
Females lay 20 to 30 eggs on the underside of leaves that hang
right above the water. Males, on the other hand, guard the eggs
until these are ready to hatch and fall on the below water
stream. The males are also very protective of their mates’ eggs
and will watch them 24/7. Nothing will sway the males from their
jobs and no intrududer is intimidating enough for them. Some
males have even been known to kick away wasps that get too close
to the egg cluster!
More than 60 different species of glass frogs are known to
science, the latest being Hyalinobatrachium yaku which was
identified as unique by researchers at the Universidad San
Francisco de Quito, in Ecuador. The team led by biologist Juan
Guayasamin performed DNA sequencing on samples taken from the
glass frog and found the genome didn’t match other species. They
also found that the dark green spots on its back, its call, and
reproductive behavior were different from other known frogs.
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‘All species in this genus have a completely transparent ventral
peritoneum, which means that organs are fully visible in ventral
view,’ researchers explain in a new paper, published to ZooKeys.
‘The reproductive behaviour is also unusual, with males calling
from the underside of leaves and providing parental care to egg
clutches.’
Nobody’s sure why the see-through skin appeared in glass frogs
but the discovery of H. yaku might help shed light in the
matter. The more members scientists can draw on a family tree,
the easier it becomes to identify out evolutionary traits and
mechanisms. ::)
Might be already endangered
All in all, Hyalinobatrachium yaku looks like a fine addition to
the 100 to 200 of so new amphibian species discovered each year
— far more than new birds or mammals. However, this joy might be
short-lived. Like other glass frogs, this amphibian needs
pristine streams to breed but these are beginning to dry up or
get polluted from nearby oil wells.
“For example, even though a high proportion of the Ecuadorian
Amazon is already concessioned to several extractive activities,
the Government of Ecuador is planning to intensify oil
extraction in the region,” the researchers wrote.
“Aside from obvious concerns such as water pollution, extraction
of natural resources increased the level of regional road
development, which could threaten populations of H. yaku.”
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