dv said:
Cool stuff.
More cool stuff is what Tim Flannery has achieved in his life, of which the following is but a small example.
>>Beginning in 1983, Dr Flannery described all but one of the known Pleistocene megafaunal species in New Guinea and provided important insight into long-term human impacts on tropical rainforests. In 1990 he published The Mammals Of New Guinea, which remains only reference work for the entire New Guinea mammal fauna.
Throughout the past decade, Dr Flannery has led a research program surveying the mammals in Melanesia and initiated conservation programs for the some of the most endangered species. He has discovered 16 new Melanesian species, and many subspecies, including two new species of tree-kangaroos.<<
http://www.abc.net.au/science/future/abouttim.htm
How cool is that?