It has been 35 years since we had dicovered a new carnivor specie in the Western hemisphere. But this summer, an animal that most could describe as "the cutest looking carnivore ever!" has been identified. It's name is the Olinguito. Dr Helgen. curator of mammals at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC, has studied over 60000 Olinguito remains. Some of those remains were discovered hundreds of yeas ago but only now were they correctly identified thanks to the new DNA identifying techniques.By studying those animals and their traits scientist were able to figure out which type of habbitate they evolved to live in and therefore were Olinguitos come from:
Looking at those adorable meat and fruit eating animals make us think about how vast our planet is and how much we have yet to discover. How many species live in our days that we do not know about?
Omg it's so cute! Do they still exist? And what's a curator? :3
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