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Scientists and birdwatchers have discovered 10 new owl species in the Philippines, using advanced recording equipment that

can distinguish between their hoots, a conservation official said. Paguntalan warned that many of these new species were possibly endangered because they were found only in small isolated islands or in tiny pockets of forests. Ornithologists and birdwatchers from Michigan State University, Birdlife International and other groups used museum samples and high-quality photography and recording systems to show the owls were of different species. The two new species are the Cebu hawk owl and the Camiguin hawk owl, found in the central Philippine islands of Cebu and Camiguin respectively.

The rat known is as Paucidentomys vermidax.

Scientists have discovered the only known rats in the world without back teeth, but their molars arent missing because of bad dental health. The long-snouted rodents are from Indonesia and only have special pointed front teeth, used to tear into the earthworms they eat. Jacob Esselstyn, a postdoctoral researcher in biology at McMaster University in Canada, told LiveScience these newly discovered rats may have lost their back teeth through evolution.

A new species of human: One of several co-existing in Africa two million years ago

The discoveries suggests that at least three distinct species of humans coexisted in Africa.
Anthropologists have discovered three human fossils that are between 1.78 and 1.95 million years old. The specimens are of a face and two jawbones with teeth.

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