Gallery | endangered frogs | Golden Toad

This species is often considered the poster child for the amphibian extinction crisis. When the golden toad was discovered in a Costa Rican cloud forest in the late 1960s, researchers observed hundreds of toads breeding in temporary pools at the start of the rainy season. But two decades later the species began to decline precipitously; the last individual, a solitary male, was seen in May 1989.

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