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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: For the first time in Kerala, a frog has been declared the flagship species to ensure its conservation. Galaxy Frog (Melanobatrachus indicus), noted for its evolutionarily ...
Kermit the Frog and Pepe the King Prawn talked about the summer movies they'd seen, supporting their Disney family by singling out “Guardians of the Galaxy.” Kermit went so far as to marvel ...
A galaxy frog looks like an archetypal alien popularised by Hollywood sci-fi thrillers, but that’s not the reason why a picture of it shot by Sandip Das, an Indian researcher, has got Leonardo ...
Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio, an ardent wildlife enthusiast, shared a photo of a frog on his Facebook and Instagram posts recently. The photo was of a galaxy frog, an amphibian species ...
Idukki: Galaxy frog (Melanobatrachus indicus) has been selected as a flagship species in Mathikettan Shola National Park in Idukki. After 15 years, in 2019 the Galaxy frog was spotted by EDGE ...
Measuring about the width of a human adult's thumbnail, these tiny frogs sleep by day, hunt by night and wear a galaxy of light-blue speckles on their brown backs to blend in with their dark ...
He has studied the amphibians and reptiles in Periyar Tiger Reserve, and is now collecting data on the distribution, status and ecology of the galaxy frog (Melanobatrachus indicus). “More than ...
The goblin-like galaxy frog is therefore one of the rare surviving members of the species. And it could disappear one day. In his long caption accompanying Das’s picture, DiCaprio said ...