After 80 years of stumping scientists, strange Philippine frog unmasked as hybrid

PHYSorg
Mar 26, 2025, 1:11 pm195 ptsTop
Evolutionary biologists working in the Philippines have long puzzled over a hard-to-find amphibian mystery: the Leyte Chorus Frog. It's a small, ground-dwelling frog from Leyte Island in the Visayan province of the eastern Philippines. The country is an island archipelago once blanketed with dense forests that…

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