In 2008,a group of scientist went to the foja Mountains in New Guinea."The mountains are unique. There are no Road, no people
and almost no people impact." one group member said. In just a few weeks, the international team found at least 12 different new species. These species live only the foja mountains. Here are a few of the animals they discovered.
Biologist Kristofer Helgen found this tiny tree mouse which travels from one tree to another."It uses them almost like a hightway in the forest. It hardly ever goes down and touches the ground." he says.
The blossom bat is a bat with a really long tongue. It uses it to drink nectar from flowers.It's "kind of like the hummungbird of the bat world," says Helgen.
The scientists also found a frog,which they called the pinocchio frog because of its long nose.They werw very lucky-- they caught one in the camp kitchen. During the whole trip,this was the only one they saw
The group found many amazing things.However the are still many more mysteriea waiting for the next team of explorers