The Unknown

Lately there have been very significant finds in the animal world. I just read a news article describing the find of a rare species of tree frog, thought to have been extinct, in Costa Rica. The significance of this frog is not only that it is rare but that it has been able to survive in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve. The first sited specimen of this frog was a male and when the female was found gave hope to researchers that the species might be reproducing successfully as the female was with eggs. The find of this female is very rare because they are hard to locate not only because the lack of call but because it spends most of its time in the upper branches of the trees. Preservation of these frogs would allow researchers to learn more about their ecology and their physiology and answer the question of survival against all odds. This rare find goes to show that their is still yet a whole world of exploration. From the finding of this rare tree frog to rarely seen African Okapi.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7609590.stm