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The Kuranda Tree Frog (Litoria myola) is an exquisitely camouflaged and critically imperiled amphibian endemic to an exceptionally small pocket of tropical rainforest in Far North Queensland, Australia. Formally distinguished from its close relative the torrent tree...
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The Sunset Frog (Spicospina flammocaerulea) is one of Australia’s rarest, most visually striking, and taxonomically unique amphibians. Discovered by science as recently as 1994 near Walpole in the ancient southwest corner of Western Australia, this...
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The Ornate Burrowing Frog (Platyplectrum ornatum) is a stout, ground-dwelling myobatrachid amphibian adapted for survival in the harsh, unpredictable semi-arid interior and woodland belts of eastern Australia. Formerly classified within the genus Limnodynastes, this...
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Lehmann’s Poison Frog (Oophaga lehmanni) is one of the most stunning and critically endangered dendrobatid frogs in the world. Endemic strictly to a tiny pocket of misty submontane rainforest within the Anchicayá river drainage of western Colombia’s...
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The Andean Marsupial Frog (Gastrotheca riobambae) is a biologically astonishing hylid amphibian endemic to the high-elevation valleys and windswept paramo scrublands of the Ecuadorian Andes. Unlike most frogs that abandon their eggs in vulnerable bodies of water,...
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The Bornean Flat-headed Frog (Barbourula kalimantanensis) is an extraordinary biological marvel and the only known frog species completely devoid of lungs. Endemic exclusively to cold, torrential rainforest torrents in Indonesian Borneo, this primitive anuran has...
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The Hairy Frog (Trichobatrachus robustus), also famously nicknamed the ‘Horror Frog’ or ‘Wolverine Frog,’ is one of the most bizarre and physiologically astonishing amphibians on Earth. Native to the rushing rainforest torrents of Central...
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The Upland Chorus Frog (Pseudacris feriarum) is a diminutive, secretive treefrog celebrated as one of the very first harbingers of spring across the eastern United States. Even when late-winter snow flurries still dust the forest floor, hundreds of these miniature...
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The Southern Gastric-brooding Frog (Rheobatrachus silus) is universally regarded in evolutionary biology as one of the most astonishing, miraculous, and tragic amphibians in history. Discovered in 1972 in the mountain streams of Queensland, Australia, this small,...
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The Lake Junin Frog (Telmatobius macrostomus), known locally in Peru as the ‘Rana Gigante de Junín’, is one of the largest entirely aquatic frogs in the world, rivaled in South America only by its cousin, the Titicaca water frog. Perfectly adapted to the...
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