The 90's Attack: Real-Life Furbys Discovered

The 90's Attack: Real-Life Furbys Discovered

Something called a pygmy tarsier that looks exactly like the most annoying toy of our childhood, has been found for the first time in 70 years in Indonesia. MSNBC reports:

Three specimens of the pygmy tarsier, a nocturnal creature about the size of a small mouse, were trapped and tracked this summer on Mount Rorekatimbo in Lore Lindu National Park in Central Sulawesi, Texas A&M University reported.

 

Pygmy tarsiers rank among the rarest of the many tarsier species in Asia and the Pacific — and in fact some primatologists had written them off as extinct.

 

Before this year, only three specimens had ever been collected, according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Two were found in 1916 and 1930. The third was a dead pygmy tarsier that Indonesian scientists found in a rat trap on Mount Rorekatimbo in 2000. That motivated primatologists to intensify their search for a live specimen of the species, "but none of them were able to find it," Gursky-Doyen said.

I knew this day would come. I knew we couldn't escape them. No one is safe. Get out your cameras; people are going to want to see how it all went down. 

 

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broseph
don't feed that thing after midnight Posted 11/19/2008 02:51 AMReply
Anonymous
thats just creepy!!!!!!!!!!!!! : ) Posted 04/29/2009 2:31 PMReply

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