Left: A Chilean frog (Calyptocephalella gayi) is seen on a tree trunk in a wetland in the city of Quilpue, Chile, on Dec. 8. Right: An environmental researcher shows a Chilean frog tadpole after ...

As Reuters reported separately, the Chilean native Calyptocephalella gayi, or Helmeted Water Toad — a species considered a "living fossil" since it was around during the time of the dinosaurs — is ...

A species in Chile that once hopped alongside dinosaurs now faces a dire threat — not from prehistoric predators, but from humans. The Helmeted Water Toad (Calyptocephalella gayi), a “living ...

A giant frog species that hopped alongside dinosaurs and is considered a “living fossil” is now losing ground in its native Chile as climate change and human intervention damage its habitat.

A Chilean frog (Calyptocephalella gayi) sits on a tree trunk in a wetland in the middle of a neighbourhood in the city of Quilpue, Chile, December 8, 2024. — Reuters ...

A giant frog species that hopped alongside dinosaurs and is considered a "living fossil" is now losing ground in its native Chile as climate change and human intervention damage its habitat.

A Chilean frog (Calyptocephalella gayi) sits on a tree trunk in a wetland in the middle of a neighbourhood in the city of Quilpue, Chile (REUTERS) ...

Environmental researchers look for Chilean frog tadpoles (Calyptocephalella gayi) in a wetland in the middle of a neighbourhood in the city of Quilpue, (REUTERS) ...

Environmental researchers extract genetic material from a Chilean frog's leg (Calyptocephalella gayi) in a wetland in the middle of a neighbourhood in the city of Quilpue, Chile, Dec 8, 2024 ...

[ MEDLINE Abstract ] Digital dissection of the head of the frogs Calyptocephalella gayi and Leptodactylus pentadactylus with emphasis on the feeding apparatus. January 01, 2021 [ MEDLINE Abstract ] ...

Currently, we are experiencing unprecedented declines in biodiversity around the globe in what biologists have named the sixth mass extinction. Whilst habitat loss and ongoing anthropogenic ...