Scientists Make a Giant Leap in Discovery

In Australia, the Yellow-spotted Bell frog has been rediscovered after scientists thought it was extinct for 30 years. Luke Pearce, a fisheries conservation officer saw the frog when he was walking down a stream doing research in 2008. He returned to the same spot in 2009 and other experts confirmed a colony of 100 Yellow-spotted Bell frogs. In order to protect the frogs from environmental dangers such as poaching, the discovery was kept a secret, until now. According Mike Tyler, to a frog expert, around a dozen species of Australian frogs are critically endangered. David Hunter, a threatened species officer says, “it gives us hope that a lot of other species that we thought were extinct aren’t actually extinct-we just haven’t found them.” Original article at http://www.aolnews.com/science/article/yellow-spotted-bell-frog-species-rediscovered-in-australia/19383321