By David McKenzie, CNN
Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) — Scientists are claiming they have discovered a new species of monkey living in the remote forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo — an animal well-known to local hunters but until now, unknown to the outside world.
In a paper published Wednesday in the open-access journal Plos One, the scientists describe the new species that they call Cercopithecus Lomamiensis, known locally as the Lesula, whose home is deep in central DR Congo’s Lomami forest basin. The scientists say it is only the second discovery of a monkey species in 28 years.
In an age where so much of the earth’s surface has been photographed, digitized, and placed on a searchable map on the web discoveries like this one by a group of American scientists this seem a throwback to another time.
Allah is forever capable of Creating.There maybe other species of other living things on the earth yet to be founds or discovered. Inshallah.
This monkey maybe new to the world. But is it genetically new too? I mean it might have been living ever since the other species.
Oh, I don’t think ‘we’ have exhausted our findings on this Earth, yet. There are scores of other living things in the deepest part of the oceans where humans have not even reached, yet….