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First fluorescent frog found in Argentina
10 years agoHandout photo relased by CONICET and MACN (Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales) researchers Carlos Taboada and Julian Faivovich on March 16, 2017 in Buenos Aires of a fluorescent polka-dot tree frog (Hypsiboas punctatus) that lives in South America. Argentine and Brazilian scientists discovered the first case of natural fluorescence in amphibians in the tree-frog. C.TABOADA-J.FAIVOVICH / MACN-CONICET / AFP
Argentine and Brazilian scientists at the Bernardino Rivadaiva Natural Sciences Museum made the discovery while studying the metabolic origin of pigments in a tree-frog species common to South America.