a frog (cc) jurvetson
Thanks to @JChameleon and @EclectiqueID for sharing about this news. This article published by the more-than serious magazine ScienceDaily is another eye-opener about how rich Madagascar’s biodiversity is.
While researchers get very excited about discovering few new species, I can imagine how important this discovery of 200 species of amphibians is – whether we are talking about conservation, or we are amphibian-lovers. Can you imagine that this discovery (or set of discoveries) alone doubled the number of identified amphibians on earth? Being a Malagasy-born living in Madagascar, I never paid any particular attention to those amphibians, I do admit – I took them for granted. But now I’m also discovering (but this blog is about discovering, right? My discoveries combined with other people’s discoveries.) .
I guess the discoveries ain’t over yet – some has already found it while I’m at the beginning stage when it comes to frogs.
Sounds like some frog-passionate people are out there, but even if you’re not passionate about amphibians, I’d like to hear from you. Which one is your best frog?
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Thanks to @JChameleon and @EclectiqueID for sharing about this news. This article published by the more-than serious magazine ScienceDaily is another eye-opener about how rich Madagascar’s biodiversity is. While researchers get very excited about discovering few new species, I can imagine how important this discovery of 200 species of amphibians is – whether we are talking [...]
Thanks to @JChameleon and @EclectiqueID for sharing about this news. This article published by the more-than serious magazine ScienceDaily is another eye-opener about how rich Madagascar’s biodiversity is. While researchers get very excited about discovering few new species, I can imagine how important this discovery of 200 species of amphibians is – whether we are talking [...]
Thanks to @JChameleon and @EclectiqueID for sharing about this news. This article published by the more-than serious magazine ScienceDaily is another eye-opener about how rich Madagascar’s biodiversity is. While researchers get very excited about discovering few new species, I can imagine how important this discovery of 200 species of amphibians is – whether we are talking [...]
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some other articles about this discovery on the website of the well-respected National Geographic (with some amazing photos) on http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/photogalleries/new-amphibian-pictures/photo2.html
yet another report from reuters here http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKTRE5453XU20090506