Cryptic species in our own backyards!
A few weeks ago Dr. Catherine Newman, a biologist at Louisiana State University, published a paper describing a new frog species, previously unknown to science. Many of us have grown accustomed to reading news about new frogs being discovered in remote, primeval forests around the world – frogs just aren’t a very well studied group, so we still have a lot to learn. But this discovery was different. The new frogs described described by Newman live in one of the most urbanized [...]