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Scientists today claimed to have discovered a lost world in an isolated Indonesian jungle, identifying dozens of new species of frogs, butterflies and plants, as well as a bird of paradise thought to have been extinct for more than 100 years.
The expedition also found large mammals hunted to near extinction elsewhere during its rapid survey of the Foja Mountains, in Papua New Guinea. They said that the wildlife was remarkably unafraid of humans.
Two Long-Beaked Echidnas, a primitive egg-laying mammal, simply allowed scientists to pick them up and bring them back to their camp to be studied, said Bruce Beehler, a co-leader of the month-long trip.
The thing about the lost world in the report is that it has been found. And it was there before we found it so it was never 'lost'. But perhaps something here was lost...which we wouldn't recognise now.
The expedition also found large mammals hunted to near extinction elsewhere during its rapid survey of the Foja Mountains, in Papua New Guinea. They said that the wildlife was remarkably unafraid of humans.
Two Long-Beaked Echidnas, a primitive egg-laying mammal, simply allowed scientists to pick them up and bring them back to their camp to be studied, said Bruce Beehler, a co-leader of the month-long trip.
The thing about the lost world in the report is that it has been found. And it was there before we found it so it was never 'lost'. But perhaps something here was lost...which we wouldn't recognise now.
posted by Philip Howard at 11:39 AM
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