14 NEW SPECIES DISOVERED IN BRAZIL
Researchers have discovered a legless lizard, a tiny woodpecker, and this fat-tailed mouse opossum of the genus Thylamys, along with 11 other suspected new species in Brazil’s Cerrado, a wooded grassland that once covered an area half the size of Europe, but is now being converted to cropland and ranchland at twice the rate of the neighboring Amazon rainforest. Scientists from Conservation International and Brazilian universities found 14 species believed new to science – eight fish, three reptiles, one amphibian, one mammal, and one bird – in and around the Serra Geral do Tocantins Ecological Station.
