47 SHARES Share Tweet Google Whatsapp Digg Reddit Stumbleupon MailA tiny new frog species has been discovered on a remote Ethiopian mountain. Bibita Mountain was under the radar for several years due to its isolation, and no zoologist had ever explored it before. The new frog was found by Postdoctoral Associates Sandra Goutte and Jacobo Reyes-Velasco, of NYU Abu Dhabi. Dr Goutte said: “When we looked at the frogs, it was obvious that we had found a new species, they look so different from any Ethiopian species we had ever seen before.”The research team sequenced tissue samples from the new species and discovered that Phrynobatrachus bibita sp. nov. is genetically different from any frog species in the region.

Source: Ethiopian News February 12, 2019 19:30 UTC