A team of Australian scientists has discovered a curious chocolate frog tree frog in the lowland rainforests of New Guinea.
Tree frogs are known for their green skin - but due to its brown colouring, researchers named it chocolate frog - and the name stuck. The closest known relative of Litoria mira is the Australian green tree frog. The two species look similar except one is usually green, while the new species usually has a lovely chocolate colouring, Paul Oliver of the Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security and Queensland Museum, who described the discovery in a co-authored paper in the journal the Australian Journal of Zoology said in a statement.
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Harry Potter fans hope that one day, real-life magical creatures might be discovered. We want Centaurs to be riding through undiscovered forests, Nifflers to run wild around the world’s banks in search of shiny objects, and for Hippogriffs to fly over our heads so swiftly that they could be mistaken for eagles if it wasn’t for the oddly large and horse-like body…
We can all dream, and a team of scientists from Australia has had its dreams come true after discovering a new species of frog in the lowlands rainforest of New Guinea.
While it doesn’t have magical powers, it has been named after something
Popularised by the Harry Potter books, the chocolate frog, it has emerged, is far from fictional.A living version of the confectionery shop favourite has been discovered in the jungles of New Guinea.
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