New species found in New Guinea. Be sure to click on the photo show - there's a picture of an echidna (
Friday, February 17, 2006
And this has been out for a couple days, but I missed getting it posted:
New species found in New Guinea. Be sure to click on the photo show - there's a picture of an echidna (a new species of mammal! That's actually quite an unusual thing; scientists assume most species of mammals have been found and described already edited: apparently it's not a new species of echidna, although they did find a species of tree kangaroo that was a "new record" for this locale) and also epiphytic rhododendrons (EPIPHYTIC RHODODENDRONS! I realize no one else is excited by that, but I am).
New species found in New Guinea. Be sure to click on the photo show - there's a picture of an echidna (
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Well *I'm* excited too -- but then, I started my professional life as a botanist. {grin}
Reminds me of the time a fellow botanist on a church field trip found _Marsilea_ growing wild -- we were the only two excited, everyone else just thought it was a four-leaf clover :)
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