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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 09/07/2009 : 05:35:19
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Actually there's nothing new about fanged frogs. There are several species of these ranids in Asia and one in the Phillipines, and I really don't know much about them. But fhat's ok because they have only a bit part to play in this article, anyway.
| Lost world of fanged frogs and giant rats discovered in Papua New Guinea |
The Bosavi woolly rat had no fear of humans when it was discovered. Photograph: Jonny Keeling/BBC
Lost world of fanged frogs and giant rats discovered in Papua New GuineaIn pictures: Lost land of the volcano
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Robert Booth The Guardian, Monday 7 September 2009 Article history
The Bosavi woolly rat had no fear of humans when it was discovered. Photograph: Jonny Keeling/BBC
A lost world populated by fanged frogs, grunting fish and tiny bear-like creatures has been discovered in a remote volcanic crater on the Pacific island of Papua New Guinea.
'A giant woolly rat never before seen by science' Link to this audio A team of scientists from Britain, America, Hawaii and Papua New Guinea found more than 40 previously unidentified species when they climbed into the kilometre-deep crater of Mount Bosavi and explored a pristine jungle habitat teeming with life that has evolved in isolation since the volcano last erupted 200,000 years ago. In a remarkably rich haul from just five weeks of exploration, the biologists discovered 16 frogs which have never before been recorded by science, at least three new fish, a new bat and a giant rat, which may turn out to be the biggest in the world.
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And now that the, er, cat's out of the bag, as it were, we can kiss another irreplacable, rain forest habitate goodbye to corporate greed.
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Edited by - filthy on 09/07/2009 05:37:26
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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Posted - 09/07/2009 : 14:13:46 [Permalink]
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Dammit, you got me excited, Filthy. You owe me a real fanged frog. (Not to mention a naked Sarah Palin.) But the rats were cool.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 09/07/2009 : 14:35:04 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Dammit, you got me excited, Filthy. You owe me a real fanged frog. (To add to a naked Sarah Palin in your account.) But the rats were cool.
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I know of them, but little about them The couple of images I've seen were of just another, eh, frog. I'll dig into it a little deeper sometime this week, maybe. But I'm not going to dig into Mx. Palin any deeper than i already have. Even I have a gag reflex.
That is a really neat rat!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 09/07/2009 : 14:36:54 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Dammit, you got me excited, Filthy. You owe me a real fanged frog... |
I guess this will have to do until one can be found: 
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Fanged frogs -- oh really?
