A scientist holds an olive sunbird found during a fall 2008 expedition to
northern Mozambique's unexplored Mount Mabu.

I have a love/hate relationship with Google Earth because of the memory it needs to run. That might say something about my computer, but regardless, I find it very cool but very aggravating because of the time it takes and that I have to restart my computer every single time I use it.

But, how awesome is it that scientists are using it and finding new areas of the earth that haven't been mapped or explored??

Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew were scanning Google Earth and came upon a forest in Mozambique that had never been mapped, so they set out to see what they could find. They found the forest of Mount Mabu, teeming with unusual species of plants and animals.

“This is potentially the biggest area of medium-altitude forest I’m aware of in southern Africa, yet it was not on the map.”
– expedition leader Jonathan Timberlake, RBC Kew

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