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Endangered giant burrowing frog returns to wild after tadpoles rescued from ashes of black summer fires

Tadpoles collected from puddles in East Gippsland were transported to Melbourne zoo, where they were raised to metamorphosis and successfully bred in captivity for the first time After the 2019-20 black summer bushfires , scientists in eastern Victoria stumbled across something they had been after for years: puddles of tadpoles from the southern giant burrowing frog, one of the state’s most…

Endangered giant burrowing frog returns to wild after tadpoles rescued from ashes of black summer fires

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