New species found in Borneo

A long tailed slug & a lungless frog

"This WWF Malaysia photo shows a long-tailed slug, Ibycus rachelae, that uses "love darts" made of calcium carbonate to pierce and inject a hormoneinto a mate to increase the chances of reproduction, in an unknown location in the "Heart of Borneo", in a remote area of dense, tropical rainforest that borders Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei." (AFP/HO/File/Peter Koomen)

"This WWF Malaysia photo shows a seven-centimetre flat-headed frog, known as the "Barbourula kalimantanensis", discovered in 2008 and which breathesentirely through its skin instead of lungs, in an unknown location in the "Heart of Borneo", in a remote area of dense, tropical rainforest that borders Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei." (AFP/File/David Bickford)

 
 

A brightorange, almost flame-like snake

"This undated photo released by the World Wildlife Fund shows a Dendrelaphis kopsteini, one of the new discoveries in Borneo, a snake that has a brightorange, almost flame-like, neck coloration that gradually fuses into an extraordinary iridescent and vivid blue, green and brown pattern. When threatened it flares its nape, revealing bright orange colors. A lung-less frog, a frog that flies and a slug that shoots love darts are among 123 new species discovered in Borneo since 2007, the result of a three-nation project backed by the WWF to conserve one of the oldest rainforests in the world."

(AP Photo/World Wildlife Fund, Gernot Vogel, HO)

"Phobaeticus chani", the world's longest stick insect measuring 56.7cm in lenght (with the body of 35.7cm)

"This WWF Malaysia photo shows the "Phobaeticus chani", the world's longest stick insect measuring 56.7cm in lenght (with the body of 35.7cm),with only three specimens of the creature have ever been found, discovered near Gunung Kinabalu Park, in the "Heart of Borneo", in the tropical rainforest that borders Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei." (AFP/HO/File/Orang Asli)

Hey! That's my country...

"Graphic on new species found on a 220,000-square-kilometre tropical rainforest that borders Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei, according to conservation groupWWF Thursday."

Malaysia-Brunei-wildlife-environment-species(AFP/Graphics/null)

Adapted by Yahoo!News; New Species Found in Borneo

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