Posted on 06/17/2009 11:50:08 AM PDT by rface
Near the once-contentious border of Ecuador and Peru in the mountainous forests of the Cordillera del Condor, scientists from Conservation International (CI) conducted a Rapid Assessment Program (RAP), uncovering what they believe are several new species, including four amphibians, one lizard, and seven insects.
“The species that we discovered on this expedition are fascinating .........
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tiny frog
white-faced gnome katydid
a new beautiful poison arrow frog
a new lizard
a new salamander
a "glass" or "crystal" frog
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Scientists documented 18,516 previously unknown species in 2007
In a survey of the island-nation of Madagascar they have identified between 129 and 221 new species of frogs. The discovery of so many new species nearly doubles the island’s total number of frogs.
Colorful jumping spiders, a tiny frog with a "ringing song" and a striped gecko are among more than 50 previously unknown species discovered during a recent survey in the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea. More than 600 species were documented during the 2008 expedition....
(Excerpt) Read more at news.mongabay.com ...
BRAND NEW Species ...... Created .... or maybe Intelligent Designed
Or... No one has simply categorized them yet because they are in the middle of a vast rain forest and the few that are there stayed out of peoples way so far.
When they come across a new species that just appears in someplace like Central Park I might be amazed, but not the middle of the Amazon.
Not so fast there quick draw. That was not even implied in this discovery.
You creationistas are really grasping at straws even more desperately.
Hyalinobatrachium pellucidum is a species of glass frog or crystal frog (so called because you can see their internal organs through their translucent skin). This species is listed as Endangered by the IUCN Red List. Photo by: Luis Coloma.
This beautiful poison arrow frog is from the genus Dendrobates and is potentially new to science. Here the male can be seen carrying one of its tadpoles. Photo by: Jessica Deichmann.
Exactly.
You mean we don’t know every thing about the earth?? I thought we had explored every thing to completion everywhere on, in and around the earth. SARC// I some times think we have not explored much of anything even in our own backyards let alone any place else.
Thanks for the laugh! This is even sillier than GGG’s daily postings.
there CAN always be a good excuse to invent or imagine......or make up
You said — or maybe Intelligent Designed
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Not sure what you would mean by that, but all the “intelligent design” was finished a long time ago. When God finished his designing, he didn’t start it up again and start another round of “intelligent design”... if that’s what you mean... :-)
You said — Thanks for the laugh! This is even sillier than GGG’s daily postings.
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Pinging GGG... :-)
No kidding.
Someone should ping G-Cube!
Dilute! Dilute! OK!
well, I don’t know what I meant - I just knew it would stir the pot......since it prob’ly needed stirrin’. Sometimes the stuff on the bottom gets burnt - if it’s not stirred
Frog legs is frog legs. Jambalaya. Bring it on.
Just because they didn’t find it before doesn’t prove it evolved, it just shows our intelligence is less than 100%.
So you post crap in hope of getting a response? Thanks for being honest, anyway.
Brand new species? Or, species not yet discovered?
how would you know the difference?
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