A New Species of Frogs is Named After a 3-Year-Old Girl

Sylvia's Tree Frog was newly identified by researcher Andrew Gray. Gray, a researcher at the University of Manchester, set out to prove that the new frog was not a Splendid Tree Frog. And... he was right! He chose to name the newly identified species after his granddaughter!

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