Biologists get the jump on a new species of flying frog

A new species!!

By Thuy Ong
updated 1/10/2013 9:08:03 PM ET

SYDNEY — An Australian biologist and her Vietnamese colleagues have made a surprise discovery — a new species of flying frog gliding and jumping around less than 60 miles from one of Southeast Asia's busiest cities.

Jodi Rowley and her team were conducting an amphibian survey between two patches of lowland forest in the middle of agricultural land criss-crossed by farmers and water buffalo each day, 56 miles (90 kilometers) from Ho Chi Minh City, when they made their find.

 

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