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Wildlife experts have made exciting new scientific discoveries.
The Wilderness Project is a conservation group. The group travelled to the Lisima Plateau in Angola, a Portuguese-speaking country in southern Africa.
There, it found eight new species of dragonfly, three unknown grasshoppers and some 60 new butterflies and moths in vivid colours.
The waters that flow through the plateau feed four of Africa’s major river systems. They include the Congo, Okavango, Zambezi and Cuanza.
Some of the new species include a previously undescribed copper caterpillar and its adult butterfly. Experts also found a crowned crab spider that shines under ultraviolet light.
“The armoured crickets are very cool ... very fierce-looking,” said Rob Taylor, the trip’s leader.
