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New Species Found

Miss Chicken

Miss Chicken

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At least 12 new species of animal have been the Fojo Mountains of west Papua by a team from Conservation International.

A 'Pinocchio' frog

PinocchioFrog.jpg


(The male inflates his nose when he is calling)

and the smallest species of wallaby ever found

Smallestwallaby.jpg


other animals discovered include

a tame, woolly rat
bent-toed gecko with yellow eyes
a new blossom bat
a small tree-mouse
a new species of imperial pigeon
 
There was a documentary series on this a few months ago. At least, I'm assuming it was on this because I imagine there are very few 'lost worlds' left to discover.

The big woolly rat was awesome.

EDIT: Yes, it was on the BBC called Lost Land of the Volcano and was awesome.
 
This has been listed as 'breaking news' today but I done some checking and you are right it is an expedition from a couple of years ago. It seem like it made the news today because a story about it is going to be in next month's National Geographic.

Have seen this shark that was filmed a couple of years ago?

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIwCH3-AlFU&feature=related[/yt]


Any species of animal discovered, or first photographed/filmed in the 21st century is welcomed in this thread.
 
Miss Chicken said:
This has been listed as 'breaking news' today but I done some checking and you are right it is an expedition from a couple of years ago. It seem like it made the news today because a story about it is going to be in next month's National Geographic.
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The expedition was two or three years ago, but I think they've been making periodic announcements as they finish processing and analyzing batches of information and specimens collected. This group must now be tallying several dozen previously-unknown animals identified on the one trip alone. Even the local villagers hired by the expedition as guides had never been to the remote valley in which all of these "new" species were found.
 
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For a split second, seeing the thread title and that the last poster to post was Shameless McBundy, the first thought in m head was "Finally, now we'll know what that mustache really is!

And everyone knows the best Onion byline was "Unemployed Scientist Proves Dog Likes Beer." :lol:
 
I remember reading about this expedition a while ago, but I think that cool Pinocchio Frog is new. :cool:
 
I'm shocked-- shocked!-- that one of the Mods around here hasn't done something about this. What's wrong with these people? :scream:
 
I was watching an Attenborough docu about the oceans on cable the other day & it said something like ony 10% of the worlds oceans have been explored. That sounds so hard to beleive! Makes you wonder whats down there...

Maybe there's a whole race of intelligent humanoid species that lives down there & never see the surface. We'd be like far off aliens in another galaxy to them. :eek:
 
^anything that can survive in the deepest parts of the ocean has like, evolved to withstand enormous pressure and stuff. whatever's down there would likely explode if it came to the surface and umm, splatter it's guts all over the place!

that would be really cool!
 
Don't be suckers. 57% of new species found so far in the 21st century are CGI. All those blue Avatar thingies are a case in point.
 
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