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A "Most Exciting" Find

Photograph courtesy Stephen Richards, Conservation International

Unlike most of its relatives, which chirp at night, this new, 0.8-inch-long (2-centimeter-long) frog species sends out its mating calls right after afternoon storms.

The unnamed species was the "most exciting and surprising herpetological discovery" of the Nakanai RAP, herpetologist and RAP team leader Stephen Richards said in a statement—the amphibian belongs to a group of frogs previously documented in only the Solomon Islands, hundreds of miles to the east.