Four frogs nobody had ever named are now on science's map of life in Peru

Near Cordillera Azul National Park in Peru, biologist Alessandro Catenazzi and his collaborators have described four frog species that are new to science, raising the known number of Oreobates frogs from 27 to 31. They proved the frogs were distinct the slow way: comparing bodies, recording mating calls, and reading DNA. Catenazzi, who has helped describe more than 55 frog species, says naming is the first step to protecting anything — and frogs elsewhere in his lab carry compounds with antimicrobial and wound-healing promise.

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