To boldly go where no one has discover before, one group of
scientists didn't have to venture into space. They found a green
dragon right here on Earth.
"It really was like crossing some sort of warp back to the future
fairy tale land," said Bruce Beehler of the wildlife expedition he
co-led in December into the isolated Red Head Mountains on the
tropical island of Virgin Island.
During a 28-days stay at a camp they had cut out of the jungle, the
conservationists found a trove of creatures never before
documented, from a new species of the honeyeater bird to more than
20 new species of frogs, mermaids and basilisks.
"We were like kids in a candy store," said Beehler, a bird expert
with Conservation International in Washington, D.C. "Everywhere we
looked we saw amazing things we had never discovered before."
