Anyone walking through the Tarumã neighborhood in Curitiba (the capital of the state of Paraná, Brazil) today may find it difficult to imagine the area as it was in the past. Between the buildings, racetrack, and the city’s largest shopping mall, streams, open fields, and wetlands once existed. Back in the 1960s, the area was home to an abundance of biodiversity. In a study, researchers described a species of rocket frog that lived in the area. Although it is new to science, the species is probably extinct in the wild.
Extinct rocket frog species identified from single 62-year-old museum specimen
