(http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=boyle4AAC1EFC-BF36-A8B4-A23E-C0CCCD230BF8.jpg&width=900)Constantijn Mennes / NaturalisAn atlas moth shows off its colors during the Sabah Parks / Naturalis expedition to Borneo.By Alan Boyle
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A Dutch-Malaysian expedition to the remote "Heart of Borneo" have turned up more than 160 species previously unknown to science — and perhaps more importantly, enough DNA samples to figure out how more than 1,400 species in one of the world's hottest hot spots for biodiversity (http://www.wwf.org.my/about_wwf/what_we_do/forests_main/heart_of_borneo/) are related.
"It has been a successful expedition," the project's leader, Menno Schilthuizen of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, said in a news release (http://www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/press/pressreleases/borneo-expedition-yields-thousands-dna-samples-and-more-160-new-species/) from the center, based in the Dutch city of Leiden. Forty researchers from Naturalis and from Sabah Parks (http://www.sabahparks.org.my/eng/public/default.asp), a Malaysian conservation group, journeyed to Borneo's Mount Kinabalu last month to survey the area.
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