AN INTERNATIONAL search was launched yesterday to rediscover 100 species of “lost” amphibians, including the golden toad, Jackson’s climbing salamander and hula painted frog.

THE world’s smallest wallaby and a frog with a Pinocchio-like nose were among the new species discovered in a remote mountain wilderness, conservationists said.

MANKIND’S closest relatives are teetering on the brink of their first extinctions in more than a century, hunted by humans for food and medicine and squeezed from forest homes, a report on endangered primates said yesterday.

Almost a third of all apes, monkeys and other primates are in danger of becoming extinct because of rampant destruction of their tropical habitat, the commercial sale of bush meat and the trade in illegal wildlife, a report released today said.

SCIENTISTS combing through undersea fauna off Indonesia’s Papua province said yesterday they had discovered dozens of new species, including a shark that walks on its fins and a shrimp that looks like a praying mantis.

SCIENTISTS have discovered a “Lost World” in an isolated Indonesian jungle, identifying dozens of new species of frogs, butterflies and plants — as well as large mammals hunted to near extinction elsewhere.

Soon after scientists landed by helicopter in the mist-shrouded mountains of one of Indonesia’s most remote provinces, they stumbled on a primitive egg-laying mammal that simply allowed itself to be picked up and brought to their field camp for observation.

Scientists discovered a “Lost World” in an isolated Indonesian jungle, identifying dozens of new species of frogs, butterflies and plants – as well as large mammals hunted to near extinction elsewhere, members of the expedition said today.