The Lost City of the Monkey God Has Finally Been Discovered

Finding Species

The best find wasn’t underground, but up above. The number of different species found around the site was astonishing. “What we found is extremely high biodiversity in the context of Central America, including many rare and threatened species as well as new country records,” said one biologist from the trip, Trond Larsen.

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