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TUGUEGARAO CITY, May 5 (PIA) — The Cagayan Museum and Historical Research Center will host a free month-long webinar series focusing on heritage conservation and management, starting this May 18 up to August 24, 2021. According to the museum’s head curator, Niño Kevin D. Baclig,...
Published April 23, 2021, 11:02 PM Giant cloud rat species weighing about a kilogram once roamed the Philippines based on the discovery of a team of scientists from the University of the Philippines (UP), National Museum of the Philippines (NMP), and the US Field Museum of Natural History. In a news posted on the UP website on Friday, April 23, the scientists based their findings on the fossilized remains of the three extinct giant cloud rat species, locally known as “buot” or “bugkun,” which were known to have lived thousands of years ago. The newly recorded fossil species were unear...
Patricia Cabrera Rats, by and large, aren't terribly popular animals. But while you don't want an infestation of common black rats living in your house, their distant cousins in the Philippines are downright cuddly. These "giant cloud rats" live in the treetops of misty mountain forests, and they fill an ecological role occupied by squirrels in the US. And, it turns out, we have new evidence that they've been living in the Philippines for a long time—scientists have discovered the fossils of three new species of giant cloud rats that lived alongside ancient humans. "Our previous studies hav...
University of the Philippines (up.edu.ph) Belmonte on Tuesday said that “academic freedom will always be protected and upheld” in her city as she acknowledged its importance following her previous teaching career in the university. “I was a lecturer at the UP before and I know how important academic freedom is in an educational institution,” the mayor said in a statement. “True learning will only happen in an environment where there is a free discourse of ideas by all members of the community,” added Belmonte, who previously taught Master of Arts or MA students at UP’s Archaeolo...