An amphibious mouse with webbed feet and an unsightly blob-headed fish are among the more than two dozen new species scientists discovered in a remote region of the Peruvian Amazon rainforest. The haul of new species was also accompanied by another 48 species that are potentially new to science but require further analysis, the report said. “It’s astonishing — to find four new species of mammals unknown to science is pretty impressive. They have extensive traditional knowledge about the forests, animals and plants they live side-by-side with,” Larsen told Reuters. “These forests in the foothills of the Andes going into the Amazon are the most diverse in the world,” Jiggins, at the University of Cambridge, said.

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