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India's starry dwarf frog, lone member of newly discovered ancient lineage (phys.org)
57 points by DoreenMichele on March 13, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Outline'd it https://outline.com/uncc3e since the webpage seems to leak memory? I saw the RAM usage for the tab in Firefox (w/ uMatrix) shoot up from 26 MiB to 100 MiB in 15s and somehow slowed down entire browser to a crawl after a minute or so.


It would be more interesting if it turns out the digitized CT scans and photos were faked by a team wanting to track up new species finds. Note that at least one researcher in the artie gushed about how he had never physically seen the frog and how neat it is that once digitized you dont need to.


Is not clear to me why they think that those animals are adult or if they had being DNA tested. The problem is that without DNA tests could be also a juvenile of another poorly known frog species. I hope they had double checked that in the article. Of course just some photos is not enough.




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