Patti here. While you bipedal land-dwellers may have run over, mutilated, eaten, skinned, decimated, tortured and eradicated about a hundred rare and endangered species this week, you also managed to discover three new types of...dragons? No, these aren't Drogor, Rhaegal and Viserion, of Game of Thrones lore (though they couldn't have timed that discovery any better for HBO). Rather, these fascinating little critters are a form of dwarf dragon, a variation of wood lizard, discovered in Peru (named for easy pronunciation: Enyalioides altotambo, Enyalioides sophiarothschildae, and Enyalioides anisolepis). And they're not alone. Check out this little rare teddy bear, called an Ili pika, found hiding somewhere in the mountains of China, soon to be an herbal secret ingredient for erectile enlargement:
There were even recent rumours of dodos being cheaply Photoshopped into the dark hills of Costa Rica:
As fallible as that latter evidence is, it's your factoid for the day. Humanity still hasn't managed to realize it's manifest destiny of destroying every last precious species on the planet...yet!
...Or yet?
...Have you now?
...Okay, give 'em a few more minutes. We can do this, guys.
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