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Rare ‘woolly’ creature - with odd sonar tool on face - is discovered in eastern Andes
Getty Images/iStockphoto Throughout the cloud forests of the Ecuadorian Andes, researchers hung nearly invisible “mist” nets between the trees hoping to catch an elusive “woolly” species ...