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Post by: Bobbie Ireland on 22-Sep-10, 05:23:28 AM
'Lost' frogs found after decades

Richard Black, Environment correspondent, BBC News

A mission aimed at rediscovering amphibian species thought to be extinct has yielded its first results.

Conservationists have turned up live specimens of two West African frogs and a cave-dwelling salamander from Mexico.

The salamander was last seen in 1941, and was rediscovered by abseiling into caves deep in the forest...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11385774