Scientists discover teddy bear-like mammal hiding out in Andean cloud forests (photos)

Scientists discover teddy bear-like mammal hiding out in Andean cloud forests (photos)

While the olinguito looks like a wild, tree-climbing teddy bear with a cat’s tail, it’s actually the world’s newest mammalian carnivore. The remarkable discovery—the first mammal carnivore uncovered in the Western Hemisphere since the 1970s—was found in the lush cloud forests of the Andes, a biodiverse region home to a wide-range of species found no-where […]

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