Find in remote jungle stuns scientists

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.

The team also found wildlife that was remarkably unafraid of humans during its rapid survey of the Foja Mountains, an area in eastern Indonesia with over two million acres of old-growth tropical forest, said Bruce Beehler, a co-leader of the month-long trip.

Two long-beaked echidnas a primitive egg-laying mammal allowed scientists to pick them up and take them back to their camp to be studied, he said.