No dinosaurs, giant spiders, or 25-foot apes yet, but still pretty fascinating: Scientists have discovered dozens of new species of everything from birds to kangaroos in a swath of jungle the size of Rhode Island in Indonesia. The area was heretofore unexplored even by the indigenous human population nearby, and is described by one of the scientists in the article linked above as “as close to the Garden of Eden as you’re going to find on Earth.” I find it so thrilling that such places still exist, don’t you?
