Recently in Foja Mountains Rainforest, located in Indonesia, two new species of the Rattus norvegicus were found. Considering that discovering new species is quite rare in this century, this is good news. The "giant rat" is about 5 times the size of an average city rat, whereas the tiny possum was described as "one of the world's smallest marsupials." (a type of mammal) This just goes to show that if we discontinue to destroy forests, we can discover hundreds of new species which will help us improve our study and progress quicker. I absolutely agree with Bruce, an expedition leader, when he says, "It's comforting to know that there is a place on Earth so isolated that it remains the absolute realm of wild nature."
SOURCES:
http://www.ananova.com/images/web/1193422.jpg (Pictures)
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/17/giant.rat.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch (Article)
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