Send for Josh Gates!
Researchers also found an extremely hairy caterpillar which is now awaiting cataloguing in Oxford, where the team will give names to their finds.
40 new species of critters that only live in one place? Sounds like the Endangered Species list is going to get bigger. The follow-up story to this will be how “global climate change” is killing them.
Picture shows: A bizarre jungle spider camouflaged as lichen
New species: Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan with the Bosavi Woolly Rat, soon to be appointed as 0bama Vermin Czar.
> ‘This is one of the world’s largest rats. It is a true rat, related to the same kind you find in the city sewers, but a heck of a lot bigger.
Cool find! But *please do* leave the rat where you found it...
Our house backs up to a ravine and we have all kinds of critters that you would not expect to find in the middle of the US 4 th largest city. I caught a rat that measured 14’ from nose to tail but I would have to get bigger traps if faced with these new rats. They are as big as the possums I find in my garbage cans.
The biggest rat I’ve ever seen is now in the White House and his name is BaRAT.
Rodents of unusual size.
A team of scientists discovered the bizarre animals - and dozens of others - at a remote volcano in Papua New Guinea... the volcano last erupted 200,000 years ago.
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Ha Ha -— Didn’t know there was a Dem chapter in New Guinea...