Researchers have discovered a new species of pale-gold coloured frog in the cloud forests of the high Andes in Colombia.
Its
name, Pristimantis dorado, commemorates both its colour (dorado means
‘golden’ in Spanish) and El Dorado, a mythical city of gold eagerly
sought for centuries by Spanish conquistadores in South America.
“The
Spaniards assumed Colombia’s wealth was its gold, but today we
understand that the real riches of the country lie in its biodiversity,”
said one of the researchers Andrew Crawford from Smithsonian Tropical
Research Institute (STRI) in panama.=read more=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-in-school/new-golden-frog-species-found/article8371802.ece
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