<font size="4"color="orange">Yet more previously unknown critters turning up....Nicky Phillips takes up the story: The world's first known gummy-mouthed rat - which sucks on worms to survive rather than gnawing on everything in sight - has been discovered in a remote rainforest in Indonesia. Scientists spent two days trekking through a mountainous region of Sulawesi before they spotted the creature, which has neither cheek teeth for grinding nor chisel-like front teeth. The senior curator of mammals at Museum Victoria, Kevin Rowe, said the new species, whose scientific name Paucidentonmy vermidax meant "few-toothed mouse and devourer of worms", was unlike any of the 2200 species of rodent on earth. "This isn't just a slightly different rat with a different coat colour, this is something that is really different," said Dr Rowe, who discovered one of two specimens of the new species over two expeditions to Sulawesi last year "Read more":http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/rat-that-doesnt-bite-is-a-cute-little-sucker-20120822-24lo1.html#ixzz24FfAsefT</font><br>

Having wandered in some of Sulawesi’s forested parts, I wouldn’t be surprised by anything new found there.

What about the Siberian Tawny mouthed Strawberry faced Bumskidder?