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"SAMBAS STREAM TOAD (AKA RAINBOW TOAD) BECAUSE THEY'RE AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

By Ben Tsai蔡維哲 CC-BY-NC

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The Borneo rainbow toad has been missing for 87 years — until now

The Borneo rainbow toad (Ansonia latidisca) was considered one of the top ten “most wanted” lost amphibians by Dr. Robin Moore and his colleagues when the Search for Lost Frogs project was launched six years ago.

It took eight months of repeated searches, but a team of scientists finally found the toad in 2011, and thereby became the first to record its distinctive coloration, for which they named it the “rainbow toad.” Earlier this month, the team retraced their steps with Dr. Moore to find and photograph the toad in its natural habitat...

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The Bornean rainbow toad - Ansonia latidisca -, which had not been seen since 1924 until 2011 when this photo was captured.

Rediscovered by Indraneil Das in Malaysia. Das was also the man who found the Old World's smallest frog, about the size of a pea, in the same area in 2010.