Rare frog not extinct after all
By kingsnake.com · June 7, 2013 6:21 am
Rumors of the Hula painted frog's extinction may have been premature.
The frog, declared extinct 60 years ago, has been discovered in Israel. From Science Daily:
The Hula painted frog was catalogued within the Discoglossus group when it was first discovered in the Hula Valley of Israel in the early 1940s. The frog was thought to have disappeared following the drying up of the Hula Lake at the end of the 1950s, and was declared extinct by the (International Union for Conservation of Nature) in 1996. As a result, the opportunity to discover more about this species' history, biology and ecology was thought to have disappeared.
However, a team of Israeli, German and French researchers now report in the scientific journal Nature Communications on an in-depth scientific analysis of this enigmatic amphibian.
Read more here.
Photo: Sarig Gafny/Science Daily
