Article 11BBF Scientists find tree frog believed extinct for more than 100 years

Scientists find tree frog believed extinct for more than 100 years

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The frog genus Frankixalus has been found in four northeast Indian states but could now be under threat due to human development

For more than a century, two mysterious tree frog specimens collected by a British naturalist in 1870 and housed at the Natural History Museum in London were assumed to be part of a vanished species, never again found in the wild. Until now.

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