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A rare frog thought to be extinct was found in northern Israel. It was the same Hula paint frog from 1955, and when scientists thought they were extinct, no one objected.

But recently, Nature has revealed that in 2011 a frog of this species was discovered in the natural environment of the Hula valley in northern Israel.

Hula paint frogs are considered to be one of the very rare species, even known as 'living fossils' because there are parts of their bodies that remain as millions of years without being affected by evolution. It has a big black belly and a lot of white spots. The person who discovered this Hula painted frog is Yoram Malka, an Israeli ranger while riding through the area. Malka sent a picture of the frog to Professor Sarig Gafny, an ecologist at the Ruppin Center for evaluation.

Professor Gafny told National Geographic magazine that he was really shocked with the image of the frog and hurriedly arranged everything, forgetting that he was having a fever to drive for 2 hours to the Hula region.

Scientists initially thought that Hula paint frogs were classified as a member of the Discoglossus subgroup, but through genetic testing and CT scans showed that it belonged to the Latonia group. The Daily Mail quoted Professor Gafny saying that Latonia frogs were extinct in Europe.