Researchers at Rutgers University, in New Jersey, have discovered a new species of frog that’s been living almost right under their noses.
They stumbled on the Atlantic Coast leopard frog, which lives along the Jersey Shore and in neighbouring New York, as they studied the disappearance of the southern leopard frog.
Apparently it was the croak and the distinct pattern on the backs of its legs that tipped them off they were onto a new species.