Sashatheman

I myself dont beleive in bigfoot, just for the fact like someone else said, if they exist, there needs to be a group of them, and sicne they are such a large animal, the complete lack of any bones or other evidence suggests they are not real.

But i bring you this very recent news report. of a "new world" discovered

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18070199-2,00.html

Scientists find 'lost world'

From: Reuters By Alister Doyle in Oslo

February 07, 2006

 

Mystery ... a new species off frog found in the 'lost world' / supplied SCIENTISTS have found a "Lost World" in an Indonesian mountain jungle, home to dozens of exotic new species of birds, butterflies, frogs and plants.

 

"It's as close to the Garden of Eden as you're going to find on Earth," said Bruce Beehler, co-leader of the US, Indonesian, and Australian expedition to part of the cloud-shrouded Foja mountains in West Papua.

Indigenous peoples living near the Foja range, which rises to 2200m, said they did not venture into the trackless area of 3000s km – roughly the size of Luxembourg or the US state of Rhode Island.

 

The team of 25 scientists rode helicopters to boggy clearings in the pristine zone.

 

Mystery ... a new species off frog found in the 'lost world' / supplied

 

"We just scratched the surface," Mr Beehler told Reuters. "Anyone who goes there will come back with a mystery."

 

The expedition found a new type of honeyeater bird with a bright orange patch on its face, known only to local people and the first new bird species documented on the island in more than 60 years.

 

 

 

They also found more than 20 new species of frog, four new species of butterfly and plants including five new palms.

And they took the first photographs of "Berlepsch's six-wired bird of paradise", which appears in 19th century collections but whose home had previously been unknown.

 

The bird is named after six fine feathers about 10cm long on the head of the male which can be raised and shaken in courtship displays.

 

BIRD, BOWER, BERRIES

 

The expedition also took the first photographs of a golden-fronted bowerbird in front of a bower made of sticks, while he was hanging up blue forest berries to attract females.

 

It found a rare tree kangaroo, previously unsighted in Indonesia. Mr Beehler said the naturalists reckoned that there was likely to be a new species of kangaroo living in higher altitudes.

 

The scientists visited in the wet season, which limited the numbers of flying insects. "Any expedition visiting in the dry season would probably discover many more butterflies," he said.

 

Mr Beehler, who works at Conservation International in Washington, said the area was probably the largest pristine tropical forest in Asia. Animals there were unafraid of humans.

 

"I suspect there are some areas like this in Africa, and am sure that there are similar places in South America," he said.

 

Around the world, pristine areas are under increasing threat from expanding human settlements and pollution. A UN meeting in Brazil in March will seek ways to slow the accelerating rate of extinctions.

 

Mr Beehler said the Indonesian Government was doing the right thing by keeping the area off limits to most visitors – including loggers and mineral prospectors.

 

The scientists cut two trails about 4km long, leaving vast tracts still to be explored.

SOME PICS

heres soem pics of the new species.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4688330.stm

i have an interesting idea aswell that i thought of after reading this post.

We are fairly close to cloning humans, and doing it well. If we egnore all the ethical mumbo jumbo and actually concentrate on acheiving a fullproof way of cloning a humans.

Then also achieve a full proof way of tranfering a human brain to another body. similar to the experiments Dr. Robert White did with monkeys, could we possibly transfer our brain to a clone of ourselves, who has matured to a right age eg 16-18 years old, and in turn have all the fresh organs ( except brain)

hey guys i bring you a good article. i scanned, from scientific american.

Getting a Leg up on Land: recent fossil discoveries cast light on the evolution of four-limbed animals from fish

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hey guys, i am new to this forum, i basicly joined up , beause i had some questions that kept bugging me for awhile, wondering if anyone can help me understand.

i was looking at the tree of evolution from where humans evolved, and the furthest anchestor the trees usually provided was of Ardipithecus ramidus who is beleived to be around 4.5-5 millions years old.

My question is what did animals did we evolve from, and their appearance , if we look even further back. like 10, 20 , 50 millions years back? or is this not understood properly still?

i am assuming we shrink in size if we keep looking even further back , and resemble maybe some type of racoon lol. or something.

anyway if anyone could help me understand, it would be greatly appreciated.