tomson75;2920113 said:
The news.
Just off of the top of my head, I can recall reading about the Bornean Clouded Leopard, a huge new species of catfish in the upper Ganges that has a plate on it's chest that allows it to attatch to rock walls in heavy current (this thing is suspected of growing upwards of 400+ lbs), a new deer species slightly smaller than the Dik Dik, and a new species of Macaque.
...within the last two years.
Your way off base here.
1. The Bornean Clouded Leopard is not a newly discovered animal. They've been running around for a thousand years. Scientists just recently figured out that its a "different spotted leopard" than what they thought. They thought it was a clouded leopard that lives in mainland southeast Asia. But DNA shows that its different. But man has known about it for centuries.
This is hardly "discovering a new animal".
The catfish....who knows. But I will guaranty you people have been catching it, and eating it for eons. Nobody just gave a flip about what kind of catfish it was.
I need some more info about this deer. I think you may mean antelope, but I'd bet that I can refute it if you can find me a link, or at least the name of the animal.
I'm sure the same goes for the Macaque, if you can find some info on it.
But what we're talking about here is this so called "Chupakabra", which if it were real would be a totally new animal that nobody has ever seen. Not just a kind of catfish (there are already several), or a cat who was thought to be one species, but after dna tests it turns out to be another. We're talking about an animal that runs around the world, the size of this chupakabra, and nobody has ever caught one, or seen one until now.
Its just not out there.