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...better. A crew of scientists, academics and filmmakers from the British broadcaster visited the South Pacific island of Papua New Guinea this past spring to film a nature documentary and in the process discovered more than 30 new species of animals. Among the unknown creatures - all living inside the crater of the extinct volcano Mount Bosavi - was a giant rat that measured 32.2 in. and weighed more than 3.3 lb., making it one of the largest rodents on Earth (scientists provisionally named the housecat-size animal the Bosavi woolly rat). The historic find also included 16 new species of frogs...
While the sheer number and size of the found animals were extraordinary - and made possible because the volcanic crater's ecology had been virtually undisturbed by humans - the scientific discovery of new species is actually quite routine. In fact, biologists are identifying new species at a torrid rate, about 50 a day; nearly 17,000 new plants and animals were described in 2006 alone, or some 1% of the 1.8 million species that have been recognized so far. (See 10 species near extinction...
...convention city has also had a wave of cancellations from the AIG effect - companies don't want the bad publicity of being seen in Sin City. Just as Las Vegas was the epicenter of the extravagant consumption of the past 20 years, now it's the deepest crater of the recession over the last year. And while I do want to get my money back, I'm a little worried about seeing the dream sucked out of our most American city, the one with the optimism and possibility of New York City in 1900. The one I've, embarrassingly, come...
...feels he needs to win Florida's closed primary - or appeal to the more centrist, nonwhite and nonmale electorate that the governor has made a career of reaching out to and that the GOP will need in the general election if it plans to climb out of the electoral crater it plummeted into in 2008. (Is Charlie Crist too moderate for Florida Republicans...
...facility boasts Europe's highest museum, with displays of astronomical data and images of the mind-bending dimensions and beauty of the universe. Closer to home, visitors can journey to the moon courtesy of a telescope that takes them to the crater of their choice...