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  • Spectacular mammal rediscovered after 113 years -- first ever photographs taken

    05/19/2011 2:00:01 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 83 replies · 1+ views
    PhysOrg.com ^ | 05-19-2011 | Staff
    A unique and mysterious guinea-pig-sized rodent, not seen since 1898 despite several organized searches, bizarrely showed up at the front door of an ecolodge at a nature reserve in Colombia, South America. The magnificent red-crested tree rat (Santamartamys rufodorsalis), stayed for almost two hours while two research volunteers took the first photos ever of a creature the world thought would never be seen again. The charming nocturnal rodent made his re-debut to the world at 9:30PM on May 4, 2011 at the El Dorado Nature Reserve in the far north of the country. The Reserve was established in 2005 by...