Louisiana researchers ID 14 new shrew species on Indonesia's Sulawesi


NEW ORLEANS, Dec 27 (AP): Louisiana researchers have identified 14 new species of shrews on an Indonesian island where seven in that genus were previously known.

There were so many and some look so similar that after a while Louisiana State University biologist Jake Esselstyn and his colleagues began hunting for Latin words meaning "ordinary.”

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