What You Didn't Know About The Newly Discovered Zombie Frog

Ernst and his team have since discovered two other species of the zombie frog's genus, and they believe there may be as many as six times more than what they have found so far in that one remote area of the rainforest. Their habits of burrowing into the ground and only emitting their calls during

Ernst and his team have since discovered two other species of the zombie frog's genus, and they believe there may be as many as six times more than what they have found so far in that one remote area of the rainforest. Their habits of burrowing into the ground and only emitting their calls during or after hard rains have kept them off researchers' radars until now. Still, the discovery is bittersweet for Ernst and his colleagues. "Whenever we discover new species, we always have in mind that we are losing species at the same time, probably more than we discover, and before we even have the chance to describe them," he said, according to iNews.

Despite the whole world knowing that our survival pretty much depends on the survival of places like the Amazon rainforest, the megadiverse area is shrinking rapidly by our own hands. ABC News reports that rampant deforestation and wildfires razed an area of the Amazon roughly equivalent to the size of Israel in 2020 alone. With each acre of Amazon we lose, we are losing untold amounts of endemic species of plants and animals, further reducing the world's biodiversity, on which our environment, climate, and ultimately our survival depend. At this rate, the Amazon will be one of several parts of our world that will be gone in 100 years.

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