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New monkey species with orange lips found 'hiding' in DR Congo forest

     From :- BBC World News By :- Victoria Gill   Science correspondent Edited by :- Amal Udawatta Junior Amboko The monkey, known locally as "Likweli", has distinctive pinkish-orange lips A monkey that has striking pinkish-orange lips and a black face - and lives in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo - has been confirmed as a new species to science. The black-furred primate was spotted and photographed hidden away in the high tree canopy of dense tropical forests in Lomami National Park, in the central east of the country. Conservationists working there first reported seeing this unusual-looking animal back in 2008. But they captured just one blurry photograph. After another sighting 10 years later, an international team set out to find and study the monkey and revealed that it was a previously unknown species. This is only the fifth African monkey species to be discovered in the last 75 years. Junior Amboko, a PhD student at Florida Atlantic Unive...
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Tyrannosaurus rex most expensive dinosaur ever sold

                                                                    From:- BBC World News                                                                 By:-  Esme Stallard  -   Climate and science reporter                                                                   Edited by  :- Amal Udawatta 0:45 Tyrannosaurus rex fossil sells for record price at auction A 67 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex has been sold for £37.4m ($50.1m) at a Sotheby's auction in New York -...
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White House appoints Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb to lead new UFO study group

    From :- Space.Com     By Leonard David   Edited by :- Amal Udawatta Avi Loeb, physicist at Harvard University, poses for a portrait in the observatory near his office in Cambridge, Massachusetts on January 29, 2019. (Image credit: Adam Glanzman/For The Washington Post via Getty Images) "We approach this topic with the same rigor we apply in our respective scientific fields and we hope to provide an unbiased analysis on this topic." Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been appointed as the head of a new White House group to study unidentified anomalous phenomena or UAP, a new catch-all term for UFOs that might appear not just in the air but also in space or underwater. Loeb says the group is focused on evidence, instrumentation, data analysis and collection standards. The move follows recent Trump administration initiatives to bring more transparency to the topic of UFOs, or UAP. The UAP Science Advisory Council , Loeb explains, was established by the Whit...
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