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08-26-2010, 02:16 PM
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Micro Frog Discovered
Scientists have discovered the Old World’s smallest species of frog living inside pitcher plants in the jungles of Southeast Asia’s Borneo.
Read More and see photo at:
Micro Frog Discovered Inside Bornean Pitcher Plants | Wired Science | Wired.com
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08-26-2010, 04:52 PM
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Re: Micro Frog Discovered
Pretty cool. I can't believe how small they are. The reference picture for comparison of the penny and frog is fantastic!
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08-26-2010, 04:55 PM
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Re: Micro Frog Discovered
wow, thats pretty amazing. It seems like most of the new stuff we see reptile related has come out of borneo
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08-26-2010, 05:42 PM
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Re: Micro Frog Discovered
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“I saw some specimens in museum collections that are over 100 years old,” biologist Indraneil Das, one of frog discovers, said in a press release. “Scientists presumably thought they were juveniles of other species, but it turns out they are adults of this newly-discovered micro species.”
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How can they discover something that they saw in a museum collection that was 100 years old? Sounds like they correctly identified a wrongly identified frog instead of discovering it.
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08-26-2010, 06:35 PM
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Re: Micro Frog Discovered
Others wrongly assumed that the frog was a juvenile of a known species and then these researchers discovered it was actually a previously undocumented species. Until an animal is formally documented it does not exists as far as the scientific community is concerned.
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