PARIS—The first amphibian to have been declared extinct by the world's conservation watchdog has been named a "living fossil" after it was rediscovered alive and well in northern Israel, researchers reported on Tuesday. In 1996, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) put the Hula painted frog (Discoglossus nigriventer) in the same sad category as the dodo after its sole known habitat, Hula Lake in northern Israel, had been drained. But Israeli, German and French researchers, writing in the journal Nature Communications, say that the white-spotted brownish frog is not only still around—it can also be classified, rather remarkably, as a ...
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