Lost World Found In Crater: 40+ New Species

What you are looking at is the Bosavi silky cuscus mammal (WTF?), it is one of 40 species that were recently discovered in a remote volcanic crater on the Pacific island of Papua New Guinea.

A team of scientists from Britain, the United States and Papua New Guinea found more than 40 previously unidentified species when they climbed into the kilometre-deep crater of Mount Bosavi and explored a pristine jungle habitat teeming with life that has evolved in isolation since the volcano last erupted 200,000 years ago. In a remarkably rich haul from just five weeks of exploration, the biologists discovered 16 frogs which have never before been recorded by science, at least three new fish, a new bat and a giant rat, which may turn out to be the biggest in the world.

If you want to read more and check out the rest of the discoveries check out this link. There is also a video in HD here.

Here are some more pictures (Litoria sauroni amphibian, Noctuid Caterpillars, Crater)