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07, May, 2012
Smuggler jailed
A German reptile poacher has been jailed for four months today for trying to smuggle rare native geckos out of New Zealand.
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02, April, 2012
The croaking gave it away!
A new species of frog has been found in the heart of the city, Manhatten, New York
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10, March, 2012
Conservationists conduct a bioblitz to find out what wildlife is living on Denniston Plateau
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2009-04-06 09:25:11
18, May, 2012
As the smallest known frog species in the world's second largest mountain range, this new amphibian is easy to miss.
Scientists searching the Andes mountains in southern Peru spotted the coin-size creature -- a member of the Noblella genus--in the leaf litter of a cloud forest between 3,025 and 3,190 metres.
Click here to see more about this frog on National Geographic news
and here for National Geographic images of a new salamander and frog