Extinct Australian Frog Rediscovered

Posted by: Loren Coleman on September 15th, 2008


The Armored Mist frog, a species not seen anywhere for 17 years has been rediscovered in a remote location in the far north of Australia.

James Cook University’s Professor Ross Alford said it was feared that the Armored Mist Frog (Litoria lorica) had been lost in the devastating outbreaks of amphibian chytrid fungus that started in the Wet Tropics 20 years ago, according to Wildlife Extra.

Loren Coleman About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.


4 Responses to “Extinct Australian Frog Rediscovered”

  1. cryptidsrus responds:

    Good stuff. My heart gladdens.

    Pardon my naivete, but why is it called “Armored Mist.”

    Can’t look it up just now. Sorry. Just wondering.

  2. uhobi responds:

    Ah, this is the stuff that’s always good to hear…

  3. zachary responds:

    proves not everything is gone forever : )

  4. davidk responds:

    Because it was “myst” for 17 years?

    Seriously – it’s a type. It should be “Armoured Myst Frog.” I did a quick search and can’t see a reference presently for how it got it’s name. A quick guess is that it seems to live in rainforest (myst) and it’s skin looks a lot like “armour” or military camaflage.

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