It Looks Like Nothing Else: Meet the Bizarre Frog That Shouldn’t Exist

The Leyte Chorus Frog is a rare, non-reproducing hybrid caused by deforestation-driven overlap between two frog species, finally identified using modern genomics and decades-old museum specimens. Evolutionary biologists working in the Philippines have long been puzzled by a hard-to-find amphibian mystery: the Leyte Chorus Frog. This small, ground-dwelling frog is native to Leyte Island in [...]