http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35368928

An extraordinary tree frog thought to have died out more than a century ago has been rediscovered in India.
The discovery was made by renowned Indian biologist Sathyabhama Das Biju and a team of scientists, in the jungles of north-eastern India.
It is hoped the frogs might now be found across a wide area, from China to Thailand.
Studies of the frog have also led scientists to reclassify it as an entirely new genus.

dv said:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35368928

An extraordinary tree frog thought to have died out more than a century ago has been rediscovered in India.
The discovery was made by renowned Indian biologist Sathyabhama Das Biju and a team of scientists, in the jungles of north-eastern India.
It is hoped the frogs might now be found across a wide area, from China to Thailand.
Studies of the frog have also led scientists to reclassify it as an entirely new genus.

It’s incidents like this that increase my admiration for those collectors who were working 137 years ago.

mollwollfumble said:

dv said:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35368928

An extraordinary tree frog thought to have died out more than a century ago has been rediscovered in India.
The discovery was made by renowned Indian biologist Sathyabhama Das Biju and a team of scientists, in the jungles of north-eastern India.
It is hoped the frogs might now be found across a wide area, from China to Thailand.
Studies of the frog have also led scientists to reclassify it as an entirely new genus.

It’s incidents like this that increase my admiration for those collectors who were working 137 years ago.

Whilst the efforts of many of these early collectors should not be underestimated, the environment was in most places considerably different then, with less habitat destruction and animals generally ranging much further than they do today, making finding and collecting much easier.