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Scientists Discover New Species in “Lost World” of Western New Guinea
A team of U.S., Indonesian, and Australian scientists led by Conservation International traveled to the island of New Guinea and found dozens of new species including frogs, butterflies, plants, and an orange-faced honeyeater, the first new bird from the island of New Guinea in more than 60 years...Read more

Image by Dr. Bruce Beehler, courtesy of Conservation International. The first photographic record of a new specie of Smoky honeyeater.

Marine Treasures Found On Caribbean's Saba Bank Atoll, Netherlands Antilles

On February 14, 2006 Conservation International announced the results of a two-week expedition and impressive findings of new species of fish, seaweed and other ocean life at little-studied Saba Bank Atoll, a coral-crowned seamount 250 kilometers southeast of Puerto Rico in the Dutch Windward Islands. Scientists found scores more fish species than previously known in the region and vast beds of diverse seaweed, including a dozen or more possible new species...Read more

Image by Diane Littler, courtesy of Conservation International. Seafloor at one of the research sites of Rapid Assessment Program expedition to Saba Bank Atoll.

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• Microgravity and the Human Body

• Catch a 'Wild Star':Finding Star Dust

Conversation with Dr. Alan Stern, New Horizons Principal Investigator and Executive Director of the Southwest Research Institute's Space Studies Department

Conversation with Student Dust Counter Scientists, an instrument on board of New Horizons

• Guide for Taking Your Own Astropictures

• Looking for life on Mars, Europa and Titan: Conversation with Dr. Chris McKay

• Satellite Imagery

image courtesy of NASA/KSC

• Is there other life in Space? An Assessment