{"id":29901,"date":"2017-08-11T12:25:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T12:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=29901"},"modified":"2017-08-11T12:25:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T12:25:34","slug":"discovery-3-new-species-frog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/discovery-3-new-species-frog\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of 3 new species of Frog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question- Recently, Scientists of which of the following Universities discovered three new species of Toad in the US-based Great Basin of Nevada?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) University of Alabama<br \/>\n(b) University of Arizona<br \/>\n(c) University of Nevada<br \/>\n(d) Arakansas University<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (c)<br \/>\nRelated facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>According to a paper published in the July 6, 2017 issue of the journal Zootaxa, A team of researchers of the University of Nevada has discovered three new toad species in the Great Basin region of northern Nevada.<\/li>\n<li>The team was led by Professor C. Richard (Dick) Tracy.<\/li>\n<li>The three new species have been named as the Dixie Valley toad (Bufowilliamsi), the Railroad Valley toad and the Hot Creek toad.<\/li>\n<li>They are small in size with a suite of unique physical features that separate them from each other, as well as other toads in the region. They are about 2 inches long when full grown.<\/li>\n<li>These are estimated to be separated from other populations for 650,000 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Related Links:-<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci-news.com\/biology\/three-new-toad-species-nevada-05068.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.sci-news.com\/biology\/three-new-toad-species-nevada-05068.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-in-school\/three-new-toad-species-found-in-us\/article19352661.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-in-school\/three-new-toad-species-found-in-us\/article19352661.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question- Recently, Scientists of which of the following Universities discovered three new species of Toad in the US-based Great Basin of Nevada? (a) University of Alabama (b) University of Arizona (c) University of Nevada (d) Arakansas University Ans: (c) Related facts:- According to a paper published in the July 6, 2017 issue of the journal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":29464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-29901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snes","tag-scientific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}