I think you saw a story about
Borneo’s red cat-like carnivore.
By most estimates, fewer than 10% of the total animal species on Earth are known, so new species are discovered all the time. If you live in a biologically diverse place, and are interested in taxonomy, you could likely discover, name, and publish a new species every day, especially if you didn’t limit yourself to bushy-tailed mammals, and focused on bugs.
Since animal predators are less common than other kinds, this find is a better news story than “entomologist discovers new beetle”.
