The newly named mammal may well already be on the road to extinction. And its cuteness will not offer much protection Welcome to the world, olinguito, the first new carnivore to be discovered in the ...

A baby olinguito that Juan Rendon, an employee at the Mesenia-Paramillo Nature Reserve in Colombia, discovered in a nest 40 feet up in a tree. It was the only baby in the nest, which was made in a ...

Scientists have just solved a case of mistaken identity. It involves a creature that looks like a cross between a house cat and a teddy bear, and it lives high up in the cloud forests of the Andes.

A new species of animal, the woolly-furred olinguito, has been named as a new species after being wrongly identified for more than 100 years. It lives in the cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador, the ...

A team, led by Smithsonian scientist Kristofer Helgen, spent 10 years examining hundreds of museum specimens and tracking animals in the wild in the cloud forests of Ecuador. The result―the newest ...

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WASHINGTON Imagine a raccoon with a teddy bear face that is so cute it's hard to resist, let alone overlook. But somehow science did — until now. Researchers announced Thursday a rare discovery of a ...

Scientists on Thursday said they have identified the olinguito, a small animal that looks like a cross between a cat and a teddy bear, making it the first new carnivore discovered in the Western ...

Scientists from the Smithsonion Institute in Washington DC have discovered new species of carnivore. The Olinguito, the first carnivore species to be discovered in the western hemisphere in 35 years, ...

The olinguito, whose discovery was announced last week, is a remarkable creature. For a start, it is utterly engaging, with big eyes and a distinctive thick red-brown pelt. It has been likened to a ...

Hiding out in the treetops of the Andean cloud forest is the furry, fig-chomping olinguito, a mammal that was unknown to science — until now. It is the first mammal in the order carnivora to be ...

Scientists have just solved a case of mistaken identity. It involves a creature that looks like a cross between a house cat and a teddy bear, and it lives high up in the cloud forests of the Andes.