A lap-sized creature that appears like a mix between a cat and a teddy bear was exposed on Thursday as the first new carnivore recognized in the Western Hemisphere in 35 years. Scientists expressed that the olinguito has actually been around for ages, in zoos, museums and in the forests of Ecuador and Colombia, yet was wrongly conceived for its larger cousin, the olingo. Interestingly, experts expressed that a big mystery that this tree-crawling animal was something unusual was that it never wanted to breed with the olingo. The new species, named Bassaricyon neblina, is presently understood to be the smallest member of the same family as raccoons, kinkajous as well as olingos.

(AW:Samrat Biswas)