The School of Biology of the University of Costa Rica will announce the reappearance of a species of endemic frog, declared extinct by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), since it hadn’t been seen for more than three decades.
The activity is carried out within the framework of the Environment Week.
This rediscovery is of great importance to science: Each animal is the result of evolution and its design has taken millions of years to reach the genetic material that makes up this species… When a species is lost, there’s an empty space and the function of that species and its biological design disappears. So the importance of retrieving that genetic material is incalculable,”
said the researchers regarding the finding.
However, the house of higher education did not release the name of species of frog that will be presented on June 6th in the Faculty of Social Sciences.
A species with these characteristics is the golden toad of Monteverde (Incilius periglene), an anuran amphibian that lived in a few places in the cloud forest of Monteverde and that was classified by IUCN as extinct since nobody had seen a live specimen since 1989.