There are still new discoveries to be made

 

It may be a small article, but it's a big thing when a new vertebrate species is discovered.

Plus, it's comforting, a bit, that the natural world can still be explored and provide the chance to make discoveries like that.

So, researchers/explorers found a new poison dart frog in the Amazon River basin, specifically in the  Juruá River basin, which is here.

New 'striking blue' species discovered in the Amazon

"In 2023, Evan Koch — a postdoctoral researcher at the National Museum of the Czech Republic — led a team through the Juruá River basin forests of Brazil on an expedition.

In their travels, they stumbled across a new species of Ranitomeya (a genus of poison dart frogs) that they dubbed “an Amazonian hidden gem.”

The color of the amphibian was so striking that the researchers decided to name it Ranitomeya aquamarina."

Striking, it is indeed.