New Pinocchio frog species has a strange, pointy nose
“You could say it found us, rather than we found it,” scientist says of the curious-looking Indonesian tree frog.
In the mountainous forests of New Guinea, scientists have described a new kind of tree frog whose males sport a single, fleshy spike on their nose.
Ladies and gentlemen, meet the northern Pinocchio frog.
He happened to look over and spot the mottled green, brown, and yellow frog sitting atop a bag of rice. (Read more about the Foja Mountains' incredibly diverse rainforests.)
“You could say it found us, rather than we found it,” says Oliver, who officially described the new species, Litoria pinocchio, in the latest issue of Zootaxa.
The Pinocchio frog is just one of a handful of New Guinea treefrogs in the same genus that sport these spiky noses, or rostrums. Oliver and his team described two other
