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RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY HERE?
10/28/2013 5:28:25 PM

Mary Magdalene via Ute Posegga-Rudel: A Humanity One at Heart



Mary Magdalene12sig.jpgMary Magdalene: A Humanity One at Heart, channeled by Ute Posegga-Rudel, October 26, 2013 at http://radiantlyhappy.blogspot.co.uk

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MY DEAR ONES,
You, who are here to work for the light, are now at the point where your service is being requested like never before.

You will see many things arise and change that will show your still sleeping brothers and sisters that this reality is not continuous or firm and not forever.

This will challenge them to change their point of view that still rests on the illusionary surface of themselves and their world, and to seek the strength and eternity they project onto the outer world within themselves.

For many this will be a new experience as they never had the opportunity to know who they really are, and they will be very confused. Who can help and support them and show them the way are you, who have dedicated your life to the Truth of your Godhood, the Divinity of your True Humanness.

It is important – and nothing is more in these coming days – that you stand in your heart, the domain of feeling and compassion. That you are rested steadily in yourself, in spite of the many changes and challenges you all will face.

It is only love and compassion that counts in these days, and the wisdom and light that is the basis for finding creative solutions for a new life to emerge.

Only from the Zero-Point the New can materialize, it cannot be created from what already is, especially if it is not based on Divine Principles.

The Zero-Point must first be known in Oneself, to accept the outer changes.

The Zero-Point is the Heart that is not holding on to the old ways, that is radiantly empty and thereby full to allow the ways of love and freedom, abundance, trust and truth for a New and Divine creation.

It is your heart that awakens the heart of those who never lived from there. The mere living from the brain will end and what emerges is a humanity One at heart. And it is the heart that reigns the brain.

Dear Ones, if you haven’t done it yet, it is now inevitable that you journey back into your heart to remain there as the essence and center of your being. It is only the fullness of Divine Emotion that has the power to embrace the world and change it from the core, to inspire the confused to return to Oneness.

This Heart-Power cannot be “created”, it must be allowed to emerge from the Depth of your Divine Being that always has been there. It is your participation in this Divine Force that requires the surrender of your separate self.

It does not know techniques, because it is greater than all of them, it does not even know “structure”, it is beyond and prior to the human hologram. It just Is. It embraces all beings and things because it Is the Oneness of All.

Dear Ones, this cannot be merely a thought. It must be experienced, it must be lived. It must become Reality, your very own Reality, your firm anchor to be of service in the times to come.

What is merely brain-based cannot hold against the storm. But what is heart-based is standing firmly and is also grounded in your Mother Earth, One with Her. Gaia’s spiritually expanded state of consciousness and your unity with Her is protecting and enveloping those who understand the Oneness with their planet as the source of their life.

Beloved brothers and sisters, I am here with you at these times of increasing challenge. My love is equally embracing all of you. There is One Force of Love that unites us all. This Force is now the savior of your world as you allow It to save you and to live it with all humanity.

My Blessings are with you!

I am Mary Magdalene

Message conveyed by Ute

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10/28/2013 5:32:29 PM
Dear friends, a new, enlightening article by Steve Beckow.

A Rebirth of News and Entertainment

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RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY HERE?
10/28/2013 5:33:58 PM

NSA Scandal Really Heats Up: Ramifications Now Worldwide as People Say “Stop Watching Us”



Demonstrators hold placards supporting Edward SnowdenStephen: Brazil has already put its foot down. Yesterday it was Germany. Today it’s people protesting in Washington and Spain summoning the US ambassador. But I maintain, we still haven’t even seen the half of it!

Thousands Gather in Washington for Anti-NSA ‘Stop Watching Us’ Rally

By Jim Newell in Washington, The Guardian – Octobner 28, 2013

http://tinyurl.com/lmj22dl

Thousands gathered by the Capitol reflection pool in Washington on Saturday to march, chant, and listen to speakers and performers as part of Stop Watching Us, a gathering to protest “mass surveillance” under NSA programs first disclosed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Billed by organizers as “the largest rally yet to protest mass surveillance”, Stop Watching Us was sponsored by an unusually broad coalition of left- and right-wing groups, including everything from the American Civil Liberties Union, the Green Party, Color of Change and Daily Kos to the Libertarian Party, FreedomWorks and Young Americans for Liberty.

The events began outside Union Station, a few blocks away from the Capitol. Props abounded, with a model drone hoisted by one member of the crowd and a large parachute carried by others. One member of the left-wing protest group Code Pink wore a large Barack Obama mascot head and carried around a cardboard camera. Organizers supplied placards reading “Stop Watching _____”, allowing protesters to fill in their own name – or other slogans and occasional profanities. Homemade signs were more colorful, reading “Don’t Tap Me, Bro” “Yes, We Scan” and “No Snitching Allowed”.

“They think an open government means our information is open for the taking,” David Segal of Demand Progress, an internet activist group, said to kick off events. As the march proceeded from Union Station to the Capitol reflecting pool, the crowd sang various chants, from “Hey hey, ho ho, mass surveillance has got to go” to “They say wire tap? We say fight back!”

David Reed, of Maryland, said he felt compelled to show up because of the “apathy” he sees among much of the public towards whistleblowers. Reed said he attended the trial of Chelsea Manning, the military whistleblower who leaked thousands of State Department cables to Wikileaks, as an observer, and was “disappointed that so few people showed up”.

“The courtroom only held about 30 people, and there were few days that it was filled up,” said Reed, who described himself as “just a concerned citizen”. “We just stand by and watch.”

Protester at anti-NSA rally in Washington DC A protester wears a mask depicting a skull beneath the head of the Statue of Liberty, beneath a model of a US drone aircraft. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

The program at the reflecting pool included ex-politicians, whistleblowers, professional activists, poets and a punk band, YACHT, who performed their song Party at the NSA. (“Party at the NSA/Twenty-twenty-twenty-four hours a day!”)

Thomas Drake, the former NSA official who blew the whistle on government surveillance and waste following 9/11 and was charged under the Espionage Act, was on hand, talking to reporters about, among other things, recent revelations that the US government had tapped the phone of the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and other world leaders.

“For what? Why would you violate her rights? Because, what, she might know something about terrorism?” he said. “What is that all about? They’re an ally! They’re partnered with us. I mean there are threats to the international order and stability. Why would you breach the trust of the chancellor of Germany?”

When Drake addressed the crowd, he said any domestic surveillance legislation that might result from the Snowden leaks “must include whistleblower protection”, because “without adequate protections, [government employees] are more likely to turn a blind eye” to abuses of power. He warned against the “acid turned up by the potent brew of secrecy and surveillance”.

Another well-received speaker, Gary Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico and 2012 Libertarian party candidate for president, said “there’s only one way to fix the Patriot Act: and that’s to repeal the Patriot Act”. He too was concerned about the apathy towards surveillance programs that comes when someone thinks it’s “not about me”.

Demonstrators hold placards supporting Edward Snowden Demonstrators hold placards supporting Edward Snowden. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

But the big star of the day, despite his physical absence, was Edward Snowden – “Thank you, Edward Snowden” was the most popular banner slogan among the cord. Jesselyn Radack, a former Justice Department ethics advisor who is now a director with the Government Accountability Project, read a statement from Snowden to the crowd.

“This isn’t about red or blue party lines, and it definitely isn’t about terrorism,” Snowden wrote. “It’s about being able to live in a free and open society.” He also noted that “elections are coming up, and we are watching you”. Members of Congress and government officials, he said, were supposed to be “public servants, not private investigators”.

William Evans, of Richmond, Virginia, may have best embodied the nonpartisan atmosphere and message of the event. He wore a “Richmond Tea Party” baseball cap, as well as a Code Pink sticker saying “Make Out, Not War”. He is a member of the Richmond Tea Party but not of Code Pink, he said, adding that he “just loved” what the sticker said. Evans said he was attending to protest the “shredding of the constitution” and added that he was happy that “you guys on the left are finally starting to see it”.

“We may not always agree on our belief system,” he added, “but thank God we agree on the constitution.”

Mariano RajoySpain Summons US Ambassador Over Claim NSA Tracked 60 Million Calls a Month

By Paul Hamilos in Madrid, The Guardian, October 28, 2013

http://tinyurl.com/ldfrxqu

Spain’s prime minister, Mariano Rajoy (pictured) summoned the US ambassador, James Costos, as an EU delegation prepares to visit Washington to discuss the scale of US spying on its allies. Photograph: Thierry Tronnel/Corbis

The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, has summoned the US ambassador to explain the latest revelations to emerge from the files leaked by Edward Snowden, which suggest the National Security Agency tracked more than 60m phone calls in Spain in the space of a month.

Spain’s European secretary of state, Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, is meeting James Costos as the White House struggles to contain a growing diplomatic crisis following accusations that the NSA monitored the phones of scores of allies, including the German chancellor, Angela Merkel.

El Mundo newspaper reported on Monday that it had seen an NSA document that showed the US spy agency had intercepted 60.5m phone calls in Spain between 10 December 2012 and 8 January this year.

An NSA graphic, entitled “Spain – last 30 days”, reportedly shows the daily flow of phone calls within Spain, and that on one day alone – 11 December 2012 – the NSA monitored more than 3.5m phone calls. It appears that the content of the calls was not monitored but the serial and phone numbers of the handsets used, the locations, sim cards and the duration of the calls were. Emails and other social media were also monitored.

The news comes as a parliamentary delegation from the EU prepares to visit Washington to discuss the scale of US spying on its allies. The EU’s civil liberties committee will meet members of Congress to express their concerns over the impact on EU citizens’ fundamental right to privacy.

Last week Spain rejected a move by Germany, which wants the EU’s 28 member states to sign a “no-spy deal” along the lines of an agreement wanted by Berlin and Paris.

“We’ll see once we have more information if we decide to join with what France and Germany have done,” Rajoy said at a press conference in Brussels on Friday.

“But these aren’t decisions which correspond to the European Union. They are questions related to national security and are the exclusive responsibility of member states. France and Germany have decided to do one thing and the rest of us may decide to do the same, or something else.”

The White House and NSA are coming under intense pressure to reveal the extent to which Obama and senior administration officials knew about US surveillance operations targeting the leaders of allied countries.


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10/28/2013 5:47:33 PM
From Wes Annac's personal blog:

Our Universal Family: Every Facet of Consciousness is Inexplicably Connected

[28Oct2013]

-Channeled through Wes Annac-

Let an unending banquet of Love wash over you now as you read these words and absorb the energy they’ve arrived with.

All of the pain and disharmony can meld away when allowing yourselves to tap back into the Universal conduit of oneness energy as well as the various perceived personalities comprising such a complex, who our scribe has referred to as your Universal Family.

We are indeed your Family, and we have so much Love and guidance to share with you.

Humanity’s destiny, while being set in stone in so many ways, is ultimately being decided by you as individuals and as a collective. However, we seek to offer the advice and guidance of souls who’ve been through our own respective lower-dimensional experiences and can understand some of what you’re experiencing from the perspective we’re blessed with having.

As you ascend and reach purer states of consciousness you’ll find are everlasting, you too will desire to help as many others as possible open up to and understand what you’ve been able to. The desire isn’t for others to have the same perspective we possess, but rather, to see others bathed in the pure bliss, Love and joy that accompanies entering a purer state of consciousness.

Self-Created Limitation

Discovering infinity and understanding that your Lives are meant to be joyful will help you navigate through your Earthly experiences. When we say “discovering infinity” we refer to the discovery that there’s no limitation holding you back from your ultimate dreams and desires.

Every bit of perceived limitation is self-Created and hyped up by the ego in an attempt to push you back into the small corners you’ve emerged from, and we wholeheartedly encourage allowing any perception of obligation or limitation to wash away from you now as you embrace your infinite and Divine nature as spiritual beings undergoing a human experience that’s meant to be every bit as joyful as the existence we lead.

Does it surprise you that your Earthy experience is meant to be just as joyous as the higher dimensions?

Even in the lower dimensions of duality and disharmony, the opportunity and potential for harmony exists and is acted upon as you come to rediscover the higher dimensions in all of their eternal glory again.

Our scribe seeks deeper, and what he perceives as realer, ways of connecting with us than he has thus far, and we can say that every scribe who begins channeling our energies first undergoes a process of working with/subduing the ego to produce communications that are unfiltered by mind or by one’s own expectation or perspective.

Channeled communications from us that are brought about in this manner (automatic writing) are poised to come from us and from parts of the mind of the scribe we speak through, and the process of bringing a channeled communication through in this manner is one of working with our scribe to produce a communication rather than solely speaking to you ourselves.

Make no mistake – when we speak through scribes and have them feel in their heart and mentally dictate the impressions we give by writing or typing them out, they’re just as much a part of the communication as we are.

The method of channeling our scribe seeks is one where his mental painting of the communication ceases, and this potential is available for him and every aspiring channel.

Laying Expectation and Judgment to Rest

We quite enjoy speaking through humanity in the manner we’re blessed with doing, as one of our aims is to help you rediscover the need to lay your personal and societal expectations and judgments to rest and simply Be with the flow of Life.

This sounds easy enough on paper, but as many are coming to understand it can be much more difficult to act upon.

We can say that finding it in yourselves to see past lower, ego-driven influences and see the harmony of your developing higher-dimensional existence is more important than exposing the actions of the few with personal agendas in their hearts.

Nothing has to lower your vibration or bring your physical health down in this new era you’re entering, because the vibrations coming your way are seeing to it that the playing field is fair for humanity and that no attempts to poison your food or any part of your or Gaia’s body achieve the results they’re intended to.

It can be easy to worry about the cabal’s various actions against humanity, but we say with Love that in the new reality you’re manifesting, there’s simply no need to.

The efforts you’re making in the physical to establish a new paradigm are necessary indeed and will go on to have great effects in your collective consciousness, but they’ll mean little if you can’t feel the vibration of your new paradigm and act upon it within.

What we mean is that if you aren’t feeling the flow of Divine inspiration then your efforts will miss that essential flavor. There’s much you can individually and collectively do for humanity indeed, but there’s also much you can do for yourselves in every moment.

Seek Solace from Earthly Toiling

Nothing will be held against you dear souls if you choose to take a day away from the pain and strife of the Earthly experience and take the needed time for yourselves, because you’re Loved infinitely and it’s more than understandable that the toils of the Earth can weigh upon you and convince you of the illusory limitation you’re growing away from.

We understand and empathize with the fact that the Earthly experiences weighs on many of you, and taking time for yourselves in the ways that work best for you will allow you to see beyond the strife and difficulty and peer into something much better and much, much easier to exist in.

We note the excitement and readiness many of you feel to be a part of your new paradigm in any and every way you can, and we note the depleted feelings as well and the seeming departure from a purer way of Living and being that’s been felt in many of you.

Understand that your growing higher-dimensional perception hasn’t and won’t go anywhere, and that you’re simply in a resting and recalibration period wherein your abilities become stronger than they’ve ever been.

Surrendering to the flow of your experience will help you meld away every Earthly stress and everything that comes with it, and you have much to learn that your surrender will teach you.

In surrendering to the flow of your experiences you’re surrendering to other aspects of yourselves, as all are One and connected via the infallible network of energy we all comprise.

You’re as connected with us in the spiritual realms as you are with your neighbor on the Earth, and those who you don’t think you’d ever connect with are just as connected with you as any Angelic deity or guide. We’re all here for you, and every facet of consciousness, on the Earth and beyond, is inexplicably connected.

Our sacred connection can never break or falter; you can only convince yourselves that such connection or the souls you’d connect with don’t or can’t exist.

A Gem of Knowledge

Within every Earthly pain and stress, understand that a gem of knowledge lies to be obtained. When learning that everything playing out is Divinely ordained and meant to happen for your greater growth and development, surrendering to the flow becomes much easier and you find the influence of mind and ego significantly reduce.

Living from the sacred heart space breeds a natural understanding of surrendering and the benefits it can offer.

Understanding that, again, you surrender to yourselves in every sense when you practice detachment from the outcome or circumstance playing out in your Lives, it becomes clear that only you can hold you back from obtaining ascension or doing anything else.

The “American dream” has been sold to myriad unknowing souls and has taught them that if they put their mind to it, in American society they can do anything they want.

The idea is taught that nothing can stop them from obtaining their ultimate goals and desires, and while that rhetoric has been used for the enslavement of Americans and many others, we ask you to expand upon it and understand that with the infinite Love, power and ability you’re finding within, you’re truly unlimited in what you can do and be.

If you let yourselves believe you can’t access the higher dimensions or us souls in them; you can’t perform a feat intended to help the planet; or anything else, you’ll Create that reality for yourselves because the Creation around you actively listens to the impressions you give out.

It’s been said before that every thought, action and intention is known about in the higher dimensions, and we should perhaps expand upon that idea and say that they’re enthusiastically picked up on with the intent to assist you as much as possible.

We feel the deepest empathy and compassion for the trials you’ve experienced on the Earth, and our goal in being by your side in every moment is to do what we can to help you and see you take the paths you’ve subconsciously chosen for yourselves.

Coordinated Efforts

There are deeper aspects of yourselves comprising your higher self who assist you along your path in every moment, and our efforts are coordinated with theirs to put you on the paths you’ve chosen for yourselves.

We can’t and won’t make any decision for you, and even if we wanted to we don’t have the perceived “control” doing such a thing would require, nor do we wish for such control.

We seek to let you go about your Earthly experience and make the choices you feel are best to make while in your bodies, but at the same time we work to help keep you on the paths that work for you or to help you discover new paths that could assist you greatly in your personal growth and development.

We do much in every moment to help you ascend and Create the greatest changes you’ve heard so much about, and with everything we do for your planet and collective we have the ultimate goal of seeing you ascend in mind.

Your collective ascension has always been assured, just as the individual paths of each of you and where those paths will lead you are, but the individual and collective decisions being made by humanity matter very much in regards to where you take yourselves and your planet.

Much pollution has been fed on your Earth, in the same manner that much pain and misery have been fed and experienced in your collective consciousness. We ask you if it’s worth your energy to focus yourselves on such things any longer, or to perceive separation in the form of “us vs. them” mindsets in relation to your cabal.

It’s been expressed before that even the individuals comprising your cabal are facets of the sacred Oneness energy that is Creation, and Source looks upon those souls with just as much Love as you’re looked upon with.

No soul is judged in the higher dimensions, but we recognize the need to do what we can to keep your planet safe from these souls as they’re deeply entrenched in the darkness of fourth density-negative and their own will and greed has caused them to momentarily forget about the Divine and peaceful perceptions they and you all can access.

They know about such perceptions, of course, but their idea of how to reach them has been vastly distorted and fashioned for them by entities within fourth density-negative.

What is Fourth Density-Negative?

Fourth density-negative is a compendium of fourth-dimensional realms that are oriented toward troths and troths of oppressed, dense and lower inclined vibrational energy.

Much of this energy is fed into your third-dimensional realm and expressed in your collective consciousness, and fourth density-negative and the energies pouring into your realm from it are, with humanity’s unknowing involvement, being expressed and fed continually in your collective consciousness.

You can easily feed into this energy and have it expressed through you if you worry about the actions of your cabal or continue to feed into divisive mindsets concerning them, and while their uprooting is indeed necessary and is a process that’s being assisted greatly by us in the spiritual realms, you can change the game much more than you perhaps think by simply changing your vibration and aligning it with the pure vibration flowing through you.

You’re bringing pure higher-dimensional energy through in every moment, even when you’re fuming angry, and it takes continual adjustment and alignment to the frequencies of this energy to begin feeling it rush through you constantly.

It takes simple alignment and intention to be a part of the pure vibration your Earth is being fed, for you to be reminded of the blissful perceptions that have always waited just beyond your surface understanding to be felt and known again.

We exaggerate not when we say that nothing else is required for you to ascend, build a new paradigm or reach a higher vibration.

The theme has been hammered into our scribe by us and by fellow writers in his domain that any and every bit of expected change must come from within, and we expand upon this message by stating that raising your vibration and aligning with the pure energy you’re being given is all that’s needed to uproot your cabal and Create a new paradigm.

Yes, physical work will be done in your new paradigm but nothing about this work will drag you down or make you unhappy. Feeling the pure higher-dimensional energies you’re being given, every person will be Divinely inspired and enthralled to do the work they’ve found themselves able to do for your Earthly ascension.

Every one of you will enjoy your role exponentially, and the work you’ll do will be more fulfilling than we could perhaps express.

You’re Meant to Enjoy Yourselves

We note the drained and tired feelings in our scribe at this time in regards to performing his role for humanity, and we encourage rest and the aforementioned continual recalibration with empathy and understanding of the general difficulty accompanying the Earth.

You’re meant to enjoy yourselves and express constant fulfillment and bliss to every facet of consciousness around you, as you’re all blessed to exist with each other and blessed to exist on the Earth and undergo such a sacred experience.

The division and conquering of man has helped keep the lower vibrations fed and instated on your planet, and unity amongst every soul will come about naturally as the vibration of all is aligned with the purer and purer vibrations being delivered to your planet rapidly.

We couldn’t reference the pure vibrations you’re being given enough throughout the duration of this communication, because they’re relevant to much of what we discuss about your ascension process.

In this sense, we refer to them to express that they’re bringing about a collective willingness to be a part of and build your new paradigm, and as each soul aligns with the higher dimensions so will everybody become motivated and excited to do just that.

Allowing yourselves to rest when needed will see you able to really embrace the times you’re filled to the brim with energy and intend to use such energy for the betterment of humanity. There’s so much you can do in every moment, and we mean this in the physical and spiritual sense.

Ultimately, you know you’re returning to your personal kingdom of heaven despite what you do on the Earth, unless you were to suddenly align your vibration ninety-nine percent toward self, so whether you choose to perform physical or spiritual work for the Earth’s ascension, your efforts are still needed and appreciated.

In the Driver’s Seat

You’re in the driver’s seat in terms of what you want to do for the Earth, but we can say with Love that many will find much more enjoyment out of performing the spiritual work and feeling the resulting pure vibration.

Even those of you who feel yourselves aficionados in regards to feeling purer vibrations haven’t seen anything yet, and the alignments and important celestial configurations you’ll continue to enter will continue to cause deeper and more powerful shifts within.

These shifts will continue to be reflected in your outward reality with the destabilization of old paradigms and the things that have driven them, and you can watch everything playing out from the Loving standpoint of a soul who’s rediscovered your sacred ability to feel heaven from the Earth.

Everything you’re doing is designed to help you and your collective find and re-access the blissful vibrations of the higher dimensions, and any bit of stress or difficulty experienced along the way won’t inhibit you or your sacred missions in the ways they have in the past.

As we make our final impressions for this communication, we express as we have in the past that this is just the beginning of everything you’ve felt and heard about for so long.

As we continue to encourage you to arise and take physical and spiritual action, we also express that complacency isn’t driven by choosing to take blissful spiritual action rather than fight against the dissolving old paradigm or those who’ve kept it going.

Fighting against anything Creates resistance, and when you fight against representations of the old paradigm you actually strengthen their power.

Exposure of the cabal is important, but widespread Love and unity bred amongst your populace is equally important and we ask you to ponder if your collective would be able to run your planet if the reins were given to you tomorrow.

Ponder this as you continue along your sacred paths, and we’ll go for now with the expression that we’re always with you, forever offering Love and empathy.

Thank you to our Universal Family.

WesAnnac.com

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Contributing Editor: The Golden Age of Gaia


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10/28/2013 10:21:35 PM

'Lost world' discovered in remote Australia

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Image provided by Conrad Hoskin of James Cook University Queensland on October 28, 2013 shows the Cape Melville Leaf-tailed Gecko discovered in Australia's Cape York Peninsula (AFP Photo/Conrad Hoskin)

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Sydney (AFP) - An expedition to a remote part of northern Australia has uncovered three new vertebrate species isolated for millions of years, with scientists Monday calling the area a "lost world".

Conrad Hoskin from James Cook University and a National Geographic film crew were dropped by helicopter onto the rugged Cape Melville mountain range on Cape York Peninsula earlier this year and were amazed at what they found.

It included a bizarre looking leaf-tail gecko, a gold-coloured skink -- a type of lizard -- and a brown-spotted, yellow boulder-dwelling frog, none of them ever seen before.

"The top of Cape Melville is a lost world. Finding these new species up there is the discovery of a lifetime -- I'm still amazed and buzzing from it," said Hoskin, a tropical biologist from the Queensland-based university.

"Finding three new, obviously distinct vertebrates would be surprising enough in somewhere poorly explored like New Guinea, let alone in Australia, a country we think we've explored pretty well."

The virtually impassable mountain range is home to millions of black granite boulders the size of cars and houses piled hundreds of metres high, eroded in places after being thrust up through the earth millions of years ago.

While surveys had previously been conducted in the boulder-fields around the base of Cape Melville, a plateau of boulder-strewn rainforest on top, identified by satellite imagery, had remained largely unexplored, fortressed by massive boulder walls.

Within days of arriving, the team had discovered the three new species as well as a host of other interesting finds that Hoskins said may also be new to science.

The highlight was the leaf-tailed gecko, a "primitive-looking" 20 centimetre-long (7.9 inches) creature that is an ancient relic from a time when rainforest was more widespread in Australia.

The Cape Melville Leaf-tailed Gecko, which has huge eyes and a long, slender body, is highly distinct from its relatives and has been named Saltuarius eximius, Hoskin said, with the findings detailed in the latest edition of the international journal Zootaxa.

"The second I saw the gecko I knew it was a new species. Everything about it was obviously distinct," he said.

Highly camouflaged, the geckos sit motionless, head-down, waiting to ambush passing insects and spiders.

The Cape Melville Shade Skink is also restricted to moist rocky rainforest on the plateau, and is highly distinct from its relatives, which are found in rainforests to the south.

Also discovered was a small boulder-dwelling frog, the Blotched Boulder-frog, which during the dry season lives deep in the labyrinth of the boulder-field where conditions are cool and moist, allowing female frogs to lay their eggs in wet cracks in the rocks.

In the absence of water, the tadpole develops within the egg and a fully formed frog hatches out.

Once the summer wet season begins the frogs emerge on the surface of the rocks to feed and breed in the rain.

Tim Laman, a National Geographic photographer and Harvard University researcher who joined Hoskin on the expedition, said he was stunned to know such undiscovered places remained.

"What's really exciting about this expedition is that in a place like Australia, which people think is fairly well explored, there are still places like Cape Melville where there are all these species to discover," he said.

"There's still a big world out there to explore."

According to National Geographic, the team plans to return to Cape Melville within months to search for more new species, including snails, spiders, and perhaps even small mammals.

"All the animals from Cape Melville are incredible just for their ability to persist for millions of years in the same area and not go extinct. It's just mind-blowing," Hoskin said.


'Lost world' discovered in remote Australia


An expedition uncovers three new vertebrate species that have been isolated for millions of years.
Leaf-tailed gecko a key find


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