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Researchers from the Bishop Museum in Hawaii discovered the new frog on Sudest Island off of Papua New Guinea. The newly found species changes its appearance from juvenile to adulthood, a transformation that has never been seen in another frog. The new species, named Oreophryne ezra, is shiny black with bright yellow spots. The frog becomes a duller rose-color and the eyes change from black to blue.  

“No other such instance is known in frogs,” Dr. Fred Kraus, one of the frog’s discoverers and herpetologist with the museum in Hawaii, told the media.

The discovery, published in Copeia, by Kraus and co-author Allen Allison also of the Bishop Museum, has them speculating that in its juvenile-stage the frog may be advertising that it is poisonous, since it resembles a poison-dart frog. 

Yet why the frog changes color is a mystery. 

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.

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