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Schneider's Marmoset: New Marmoset Species Discovered in Brazilian AmazonGood news: researchers have discovered a new species of marmoset in the Brazilian Amazon jungle. Bad news: the endangered species is found only in the "arc of deforestation," a section of the forest with the highest rates of land clearing and fires.A team of researchers led by Rodrigo CostaAraújo of Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi discovered the new marmoset species named the Schneider's marmoset (Mico schneideri). The species was named after Horacio Schneider, a pioneering Brazilian scientist in the field of diversity and evolution of monkeys.Araújo and his team noted that there are 16 marmoset species located in the arc of deforestation, but there's currently no conservation effort being made to address the loss of habitat for the animals.Image: Rodrigo Costa Araújo#marmoset #newspecies #Amazon #Brazil #monkey

Newly Discovered 'Zombie Frog' in the Amazon is Surprisingly CuteResearchers from the Senckenberg Natural History Museum in Germany discovered a new species of small frogs in the Amazon, and nicknamed it the "zombie frog."Why you ask? It's because the frogs spend most of their lives buried in the soil (like dead bodies) and their existence was only discovered when the biologists noticed their mating calls after heavy rains. "We herpetologists have had to dig the animals out of the ground with our bare hands - usually while we were completely soaked ourselves - in order to identify them," said team leader Raffael Ernst as reported in Phys.org, "This somewhat eerie and muddy scenario also inspired us to use the name Synapturanus zombie for one of the newly discovered species from the narrow-mouthed frog genus Synapturanus in the Amazon region."#frog #zombie #Amazon #NewSpecies #herpetology