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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: New Bat, Frogs Among Six Species Found in Congo


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This bat and two frogs were among six new species recently found in a remote region of the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Researchers on a two-month expedition earlier this year were some of the first scientists to enter the region, inside the Albertine Rift, in nearly 50 years.

Photographs by Andy Plumptre/Wildlife Conservation Society