Fanged Creature Found 'Barking' On Island Mountain. It's A New Species, And It’s Worth Protecting

Fanged Creature Found 'Barking' On Island Mountain. It's A New Species, And It’s Worth Protecting

Fanged Creature Found 'Barking' On Island Mountain. It's A New Species, And It’s Worth Protecting Years ago, within the misty forests of the Meratus Mountain range on Borneo island, a team of researchers stopped in their tracks to listen to the throaty “bark” of a creature. “Wwiikkk.....wekkk...wekkk...wekkk.” Upon further examination, it was a creature that seemed to sport unusually large teeth.  It was on multiple expeditions, from 2016 to 2019, that the researchers visited Boreno — the third-largest island on the planet — to learn more about the creature.  On August 7, they confirmed that they had discovered a new species of “fanged frog:” the Limnonectes meratusiensis .  “Borneo is home to more than 180 anuran (frog and toad) species, including numerous endemic and unique anuran species which collectively contribute to the island’s extraordinary biodiversity,” lead author Ade Damara Gonggoli wrote in the August issue of Species Diversity.  “Despite this remarkable diversity, n…