Northern Samar hosts biodiversity symposium

The Northern Luzon Giant Cloud Rat (Phloeomys pallidus) is one of the many mammal species that may have evolved alongside the geological evolution of LuzonPHOTO 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.