There are mysteries in the natural world and there's a lot we don't know.
Some places are difficult to get to and "New" animals often live there.
Places like the tops of mountains, the dottom of the sea and the centre of jungles are the final frontiers of the natural world.
It's often difficult to delive in the strange animals people find.

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For many years Norwegian fishermen talked about a giant sea monster, but no one delieved them.
Then in 1925 scientists found one inside a whale.
Last year scientists found another one in the Antarctic Ocean.
It was over 18 metres in length (or twice th length of a bus), and very dangerous.
It's one of the most frightening animals in the sea.

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Europeans wrote about them hundreds of years ago, but they didn't see a real one until 1912. A Dutch is pilot crashed his plane on an island in Indonesia. When he was there he saw strange reptiles in the jungle. They were over three metres long and they had long, powerful tails. They weren't afraid of him and one even tried to attack him!

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At first Europeans didn't believe in this strange animal from Australia. It looked like a bird, a mammal and a reptile all in one. Then, in 1797, British settlers took one to England. Unfortunately, it died before it got there. Scientists in England thought the animal was a joke. They thought someone made it from other animals' body parts!

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Today people often argue about an animal that lives in the
Himalayan mountains. The animal is more than two metres tall and
it's hairy. Scientists think it is a Himalayan brown bear. A climber
first saw the animal in 1951. Recently another climber found some
hair from the same animal. When scientists looked at the hair,
they didn't know what it was. 'It isn't human
and it isn't a bear said one scientist. It's
a  mystery.

Отредактировано qqq (2008-09-11 22:11:13)