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    A rare great ape, a 130-foot-tall tree and an extinct marsupial lion make the Top 10 New Species list for 2018

    by Sean Greene, Los Angeles Times May 23, 2018 5 minutes

    The highest branches of a Brazilian forest. The permanent darkness of a cave in China. The deepest place on Earth.

    Life has carved niches for itself in the most extreme and stunning habitats. As a result, it has taken on surprising - and just plain weird - physical attributes and behaviors.

    In celebration of this biodiversity, the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry has compiled a list of the Top 10 new species that were described by science in the previous year.

    "I'm constantly amazed at how many new species show up and the range of things that are discovered," Quentin Wheeler, the college's president and founding director of the International Institute for Species Exploration, said in a statement.

    This year's list includes a rare great

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