A tale of two frogs: The tough uphill battle for rediscovered species

Mongabay
Jun 4, 2024, 10:55 am272 pts
In 2021, a group of scientists in Ecuador looked in disbelief at a photo of a chocolate-colored frog with an orange belly. The researchers wondered: Could it be Atelopus guanujo — the Guanujo stubfoot toad — a species of harlequin frog that hadn’t been seen since 1988 and thought to be extinct? At first,…

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