New Species Reported in the Newspapers
New Clouded Leopard
The Sun 09th Feb. 2011
A new species of clouded leopard has been discovered in Borneo. The leopard was thought to be the same as others in South-East Asia until a three year study confirmed that the Sunda Clouded Leopard is a different species that split from the main species about a million years ago.
New Bacteria
Times 20th Feb. 2011
A previously unknown bacteria that lives on the sea floor in the Gulf of Mexico has been found, due to it eating oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon rig disaster.