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Real-life Furbys rediscovered

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More Vintage Discoveries!

A primate species that looks like a living, breathing version of the Furby electronic toy has been found alive in the forested highlands of an Indonesian island for the first time in more than 70 years, scientists announced Tuesday.

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Before this year, only three specimens had ever been collected, according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Two were found in 1916 and 1930.

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i was reading about this last night...they really are incredible little primates...4in long with most of that being the tail and weighing a mere 2oz...amazing...the anthropologist in charge and her graduate student assistant have a lot of work to do as far as research and documenting...
 

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