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Yessi Pratiwi — May 6, 2009 / 9:33 am
Take a look at this picture. Perhaps you think it looks like a frog–amphibians. Well, it’s really an amphibian. But you know, it’s not an old species. It’s a new species that has been found in Madagascar by the researchers at Spanish Scientific Research Council.
Report on ScienceDaily showed that according to the researchers, if these results are extrapolated at a global scale, the number of amphibian species worldwide could double. Professor David R. Vieites, CSIC researcher at the Spanish National Natural Sciences Museum in Madrid said that the number of new species of amphibians not only has been underestimated but it is spatially widespread, even in well studied areas, from their data.
As it is taken in the animal cartoon movie “Escape to Madagascar”, this island known to be really large, the fourth largest island in the world. No wonder, this island become one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots.
Source and Credit : ScienceDaily
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