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Tree Frog Once Thought Lost Is Found

Posted on September 12, 2008 | 0 Comments

 
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A tiny tree frog not seen for twenty years and thought to be extinct has been spotted in Costa Rica's Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve.

Scientists from the University of Manchester and Chester Zoo in the United Kingdom saw and photographed a male specimen of the frog Isthmohyla rivularis last year. A search of the same area this year turned up a pregnant female and more males, suggesting that the species is breeding.

Photo courtesy Mark Dickinson, University of Manchester

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A tiny wasp that lays its eggs in living caterpillars belongs to one of the most astoundingly diverse groups of insects on Earth.

"It's been estimated to have [50,000] to 60,000 species, which is about the same as all vertebrates -- all fish, birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles -- which is a lot," says University of Illinois entomology professor James Whitfield, who led the taxonomic study.

Photo by Won Young Choi

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National Geographic grantee Cagan H. Sekercioglu and a colleague were on a night-time mission in Costa Rica last week, in quest of photographing a rare owl. Instead, they were attacked by a machete-wielding mob who thought they were thieves.

Cagan, a senior researcher at Stanford University, California, and colleague Jim Zook, one of Costa Rica's leading ornithologists, survived the attack, although Zook was cut in the hand and bruised, and their car was badly damaged by big rocks.

At the height of the drama, the elusive screech-owl flew into view, and Sekercioglu, "while my heart was pounding ... managed to focus on the owl in near complete dark."

Read Sekercioglu's story and see his photos in the extended entry.

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