The Lost World.
Feb.07, 2006, filed under Miscellany
Scientists have discovered a previously unexplored region of Papua New Guinea. Hard to believe that this can still happen in the days of Google Earth and satellites that can see whether your roots need doing. Some of the pictures are great.
The most important achievements are listed at the BBC as:
- A new species of honeyeater, the first new bird species discovered on the island of New Guinea since 1939
- The formerly unknown breeding grounds of a “lost” bird of paradise – the six-wired bird of paradise (Parotia berlepschi)
- First photographs of the golden-fronted bowerbird displaying at its bower.
- A new large mammal for Indonesia, the golden-mantled tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus pulcherrimus)
- More than 20 new species of frogs, including a tiny microhylid frog less than 14mm long
- A series of previously undescribed plant species, including five new species of palms
- A remarkable white-flowered rhododendron with flower about 15cm across
- Four new butterfly species
Excited as I am by this, I can’t help think that it would have been better for this lost world if they had left it alone. The problem with humans is, once they’ve found something, there will always be someone willing and able to exploit it.
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Singularity
~something that is singular as (a) a separate unit, or (b) unusual or distinctive manner or behavior; PECULIARITY;
~the quality or state of being singular;
~a point at which the derivative of a given function of a complex variable does not exist but every neighborhood of which contains points for which the derivative exists;
~a point or region of infinite mass density at which space and time are infinitely distorted by gravitational forces and which is held to be the final state of matter falling into a black hole. Sight
