New Species found in Indonesia

National Geographic News has some pictures of some of the recently discovered critters in New Guinea. The researchers found 20 new frog species, four new butterfly species, and many other marvelous animals and plants living in an isolated jungle.

The golden-mantled tree kangaroo is just one of dozens of species discovered in late 2005 by a team of Indonesian, Australian, and U.S. scientists on the island of New Guinea.
The smoky honeyeater is the first new bird species to be discovered on the island of New Guinea since 1939.
In late 2005 scientists on the island of New Guinea took this first ever photo of the golden-fronted bowerbird, a bird known to exist since the 1890s but whose precise home was unknown until the 1980s. […]
The tiny frog measures a mere 0.6 inch (14 millimeters) long and was detected only when it produced a soft call from among leaves on the steepest part of the forest floor.

(hat tip from Scienceblog)

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