Archives: September2009

• NEW SPECIES PICTURES: Giant Rat, Silky Cuscus Found

  A “handsome” three-foot rodent is among the 40 potentially new species found on Mount Bosavi in central Papua New Guinea, one of the least explored places on Earth, conservationists say.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• NEW SPECIES PICTURES: Giant Rat, Silky Cuscus Found

  A “handsome” three-foot rodent is among the 40 potentially new species found on Mount Bosavi in central Papua New Guinea, one of the least explored places on Earth, conservationists say.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• NEW SPECIES PHOTOS: “Fast Talking” Frog, Dolphin Found

  A meat-eating marsupial, a purring frog, and the first new dolphin species in three decades are among at least 1,300 plant and animal species discovered in Australia since 1999, a new report says.