Lost forest reveals new species (BBC)

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An expedition to a remote forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo has uncovered six new animal species.

Conservationists discovered one new bat species, a new rat and two new species each of shrews and frogs.

The region, which is in eastern DR Congo, near Lake Tanganyika, has been off limits to researchers since 1960 because of instability in the area.

The survey, led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), was carried out between January and March 2007.

It covered one square kilometre of forest.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6936799.stm

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1. Fascinating! But 'lost forest' is kind of confusing. Would have

made made more sense to say 'inaccessible' or something. I had a picture in my mind that was pretty googy.

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2. My first thought too - always neat when they

find new species of critter . . . but saying the forest was "lost" is kind of like saying Lewis and Clark "discovered" a route to the Pacific.

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3. Hell you can find new kinds of bats, rats & shrews at a Republican Party meeting.