Looking for a squirrel, a California professor instead stumbled on a scientific first

Into this wilderness trekked Silvia Pavan, a Brazilian biologist and professor at Cal Poly Humboldt. She was chasing a ...
IFLScience on MSN

Tiny, Mask-Wearing, New-To-Science Opossum Species Discovered In The Peruvian Andes

An intrepid expedition team set off in 2018 to look for a mysterious species of squirrel in the Peruvian Andes. What they found instead was a brand-new species of opossum. “I realized immediately that ...
Greek Reporter

New Animal Discovered in Peru’s Andes

Scientists discovered a new animal in Peru’s Andes, highlighting biodiversity gaps and the need for conservation in Río ...
Greek Reporter

new mouse in Peru

The UNESCO World Heritage site revealed an animal species previously undocumented: a mouse opossum in Peru. in 2018, Silvia Pavan, a professor ...

Mystery creature found in 'forbidden cloud forest' of Peru is new species of marsupial

While exploring the region around an archaeological site in the Peruvian Andes, researchers discovered a never-before-seen creature. The tiny, big-eyed marsupial — named Marmosa chachapoya — is a ...
Times-Standard

Cal Poly Humboldt professor finds a new opossum species

I realized immediately that this was something unusual,” biological sciences professor Silvia Pavan said of the discovery.