The Northern Luzon Giant Cloud Rat (Phloeomys pallidus) is one of the many mammal species that may have evolved alongside the geological evolution of Luzon
PHOTO COURTESY OF DANIEL HEUCLIN
PHOTO COURTESY OF DANIEL HEUCLIN
Meanwhile, a plenary talk by Lawrence Heaney, Ph.D., curator of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois, explained that the continuous discovery of species in the country may be linked to the Philippines’ geological history.