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Yale Environment 360: A team of scientists says it has “rediscovered” in northern Israel the first amphibian declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a species of frog that turns out to be the only surviving member of an extinct genus of frogs. First discovered in Israel’s Hula Valley in the 1940s, the Hula painted frog was presumed gone when Hula Lake dried up in the late 1950s, and it was declared extinct in 1996. But since an individual frog was discovered during a patrol in Hula......
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First Amphibian Declared Extinct ‘Rediscovered’ in Israel’s Hula Valley
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 5th, 2013
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