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Article: 12 NEW SPECIES, A LOT TO CROAK ABOUT
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- The Hindustan Times
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- February 4, 2009
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Satyen Mohapatra
Hindustan Times
NEW DELHI, India, Feb. 4 -- IT IS a leap forward: a dozen new species of tree frogs and a bush frog, thought to be extinct - it was last reported 100 years ago, have been discovered in the forests of Western Ghats.
Researchers S.D. Biju of the Delhi University and Franky Bossyuyt of the Amphibian Evolution Lab of the Brussels University made these finds. The effort took 10 years of extensive field study spread over 1,600 km through Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra and parts of Gujarat.
The latest issue of the Zoological Journal of Linnean Society, London has reported the finds. Talking to HT, Biju said, "Of the 12 new species, at least half of ...