A new lizard is found in the Philippines

It seems that a new species was discovered and after several DNA analysis, scientists confirmed that this species was unknown or did not exist.
Scientists couldn’t see the lizard for the trees. But now they’ve tracked down and named Varanus bitatawa, a skittish reptile that’s hard to spot even though it grows up to 2 meters long and sports bright yellow speckles.
In forests on the Philippine island of Luzon, the newly discovered monitor lizard hauls itself up into trees in search of fruit and melts into the vegetation if humans approach, says herpetologist Rafe Brown of the Biodiversity Institute at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
DNA tests were even more important, confirming that the species differs from a previously identified fruit-eating monitor living in a different part of the island. The first thing that came to my mind was if this event has something to do with biodiversity imbalance. It is true that technology is advancing pretty fast, but is not a secret that a lot of species have been discovered in past years quicker. So what if we are damaging our ecosystem at some point that even new animals are being born. We have to take care more of our planet or more imbalances will keep presenting.
It was until summer of 2009 when the same team of scientist start working deeper on the discovery of this reptile and they finally got an answer. I really hope that this is not about ecosystem imbalance because just like this species came on, also bad things can happen, like species extinction, let’s say that it was a scientific big advance, for the moment.