The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Friday 11 September 2009 Reporting (below) an expedition's claim to have found many unidentified animal species in a volcano crater, we referred to the "island of Papua New Guinea"; that is the country occupying part of the island of New Guinea.
A lost world populated by fanged frogs, grunting fish and tiny bear-like creatures has been discovered in a remote volcanic crater on the Pacific island of Papua New Guinea.
'A giant woolly rat never before seen by science' Link to this audio 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.
Lost world of fanged frogs and giant rats discovered in Papua New Guinea
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