Cocoa frog and dozens of new species discovered in Suriname
By kingsnake.com · October 10, 2013 6:38 am
Meet the cocoa frog, just one of dozens of new species discovered in Suriname.
From NBC News:
From NBC News:
"Suriname is one of the last places where an opportunity still exists to conserve massive tracts of untouched forest and pristine rivers where biodiversity is thriving," Trond Larsen, director of Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Program, said in a news release about the trip. The three-week survey in Suriname's upper Palumeu River watershed, conducted last year and led by Conservation International, cataloged 1,378 species — including 60 species that are potentially new to science.Read the article and see photos of all the new species here. Photo: NBC News




