Biologists have located a species of monitor lizard on Luzon in the Philippines. Dubbed ‘Varanus bitatawa’, the critter sports gold spots and is apparently a vegetarian. Yeah, I was disappointed when I heard that last bit too…though probably not as disappointed as Roger Corman. The Agta and Ilongot tribes call the reptile “bitatawa,” which the new scientific name for it [...]

Huh. After decades of scientific research pinpointing Africa as the so-called ‘Cradle of Life’, one scientist now points to Asia as the home of humanity’s common ancestor…which should do wonders for the demographics of this site, if you catch my drift. If Myanmar, formerly called Burma, is confirmed as being the ancestral homeland of higher primates, or close to it, [...]