[taxesareforever]

A team of scientists exploring an isolated jungle in one of Indonesia's most remote provinces said they discovered dozens of new species of frogs, butterflies and plants — as well as large mammals hunted to near extinction elsewhere.

What a bunch of BS. If new species are JUST discovered how do they know that hunting has led to near extinction? How close were they to extinction 20 years ago? Or 5 years ago? They don't have a clue because they didn't know about them. This is Dumb Science 101.

[dangus]

>> What a bunch of BS. If new species are JUST discovered how do they know that hunting has led to near extinction? <<

Read the quote over again... They found new species. THey also found larger mammals that were hunted to near extinction ELSEWHERE.

[Romish_Papist]

In fairness to the article, it said "other" species hunted to near extinction "elsewhere" not that the new species are near extinct. It's talking about other, known species that elsewhere are near extinct.