Thousands of New Species Discovered on Tiny Island


	Thousands of New Species Discovered on Tiny Island
reimers
12-4-2008 12:44 AM
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12-4-2008 5:37 AM
AcesLucky
Wow. Colorful and weird.
12-4-2008 6:57 AM
tabsey
Bloody beautiful. Thanks reimers.
12-4-2008 7:18 PM
ofcapri
Great discovery, Great clip! Thanks
12-7-2008 11:59 AM
citizenbfk
Certainly more life there than on Mars.

It would be great if things were studied and learned and proved beneficial to somebody, or to the environment.
12-12-2008 4:26 AM
chedare
Great biology expedition,still more there and in many other isolated regions on our awesome planet.New Guinea also in that region has many new species too in same Melanesian area.
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