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In New Guinea, There’s A Bird That Can Poison You With Its Feathers
When researcher and bird expert Jack Dumbacher was mist-netting in New Guinea, his team accidentally caught a lot of hooded ...
Macon Telegraph on MSN3mon
‘Giant’ creature with ‘baggy’ skin found in Papua New Guinea. It’s a new species
Near a village in Papua New Guinea, a “giant” creature with “baggy” skin perched on a branch, its “tan” eyes scanning the ...
Amethystine python's incredible tree-climbing technique revealed
The Amethystine python, one of the largest nonvenomous snakes, amazes scientists with its exceptional tree climbing skills in ...
Miami Herald28d
Mining company surveys creek — then rediscovers ‘delicate’ species in Papua New Guinea
The environmental team of a mining company in Papua New Guinea rediscovered a species not seen for 40 years. Screengrab from Peter Unmack's Facebook post Along the small creeks and tributaries of ...
National Geographic news3y
Matschie's Tree Kangaroo
Tree kangaroos are found only in the rain forests of Australia, West Papua, and Papua New Guinea. Six of ten species are found in Papua New Guinea, in some of the last undisturbed rain forest ...
BBC4y
'Paradise island' hosts untold botanical treasures
More than 13,000 species can be found on New Guinea, ranging from tiny orchids to giant tree ferns, two-thirds of which do not exist elsewhere. The findings, published in Nature, will be used to ...
Mongabay on MSN12d
Rare new Guinean flower is ‘canary in a coal mine’ — but in an actual iron mine
Martin Cheek first entered the Boyboyba Forest in southeastern Guinea in September 2022 to look for an extremely rare plant ...