Day 238

Day 238

 

Resurrected

Once a species is classified as extinct, odds are it isn’t coming back. But the Harlequin frog came back from the dead and researchers are calling it an unprecedented “underfrog” story.

“I can’t tell you how special it is to hold something we never thought we’d see again,” said Kyle Jaynes, the lead author of the study published in the journal Biological Conservation.

 

Photo courtesy of: Brian Gratwicke from DC, USA, CC BY 2.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atelopus\_limosus\_(5777166094).jpg

 

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/wildlife-biodiversity/back-from-the-dead-extinct-frog-species-make-a-comeback-85871

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