World News 17-08-2004 who: Bird researcher Carmela Espanola what: Discovers new breed of flightless bird where: Philippines when: Yesterday snippet: The Calayan rail is flightless "or nearly so", says BBC Online, and it belongs "to a global family including coots and moorhens." The expedition, funded by the UK-based Oriental Bird Club, estimates that there are up to 200 pairs of the rail, which, while new to science, is well known to the Babuyan Islanders of the northern Philippines. In other news of discoveries, archaeologist Andrew Young has uncovered a lost Roman town in the Cotswolds while Parisian astronomer Sebastien Charnoz found two new moons of Saturn using his computer while he was away on holiday this month. "This tells me I should take more holidays," he quipped to the BBC. [... more]

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