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New dwarf buffalo discovered by chance in Philippine fossils
Published in Health and Medicine Week, November 6th, 2006
Almost 50 years ago, Michael Armas, a mining engineer from the central Philippines, discovered some fossils in a tunnel he was excavating while exploring for phosphate. Forty years later, his friend, Dr. Hamilcar Intengan, recognized the importance of the bones and donated them to The Field Museum, where they have turned out to be from an extremely unusual species of dwarf water buffalo, now extinct.
The new species, described in a recent issue of the Journal of Mammalogy, has been named Bubalus cebuensis (BOO-buh-luhs seh-boo-EN-sis) after the Philippine island of Cebu, where it was found. Its most distinctive feature is its small size. While large...
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