Monday, June 04, 2007

How cool is this?

Scientists from Conservation International announced today the discovery of 24 new species after conducting a biological survey of a remote area of Suriname, in South America.

Half the new-to-science critters were insects, which is no big surprise since the majority of biomass on the planet is insectoid.

More surprising were six new species of fish and five new species of frogs. I like frogs, always have. I especially like this one. Let's spin some Hendrix and just sit back and look at it ...

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