"It is important because - depending on the rate of change, and the type of species that are found in the forests - it will influence a lot of ecosystem services and processes, " explained co-author Brian Enquist from the University of Arizona.

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Toronto Animal Services noted that the monkey species can carry a type of herpes dangerous to humans.

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One of the new specimens, known as KMN-ER 62000, has a face like the type specimen of Homo rudolfensis (the fossil that defines the species, if species it turns out to be), though it seems to be from an adolescent, whereas the type specimen is an adult.

ECONOMIST: Human ancestry has just got more complicated

No one now knows how easy it would be to turbo-charge an existing human pathogen, or take one that infects another type of animal and assist its passage over the species barrier.

ECONOMIST: Synthetic biology

Forest fragmentation opens the door to invasive species such as the cowbird, a type of blackbird that normally prefers open land, said Bridget Stutchbury, a biologist at York University in Toronto who studies forest songbirds.

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Today meteorologists use 10 cloud genera and 14 different species that describe the shape and structure of each type of cloud.

FORBES: Head in the Clouds

Or try buying yam and telling the seller you want a particular type when it is obvious to her you cannot tell the difference between the species.

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This is also a type of alcohol that can be made by fermenting sugar (though the fermentation is done by a species of bacterium rather than by yeast), and it has some advantages over ethanol.

ECONOMIST: Advanced biofuels