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Rare Blue Skin Mutation in Kimberley Magnificent Tree Frog

Rare Blue Skin Mutation in Kimberley Magnificent Tree Frog

by Joeby Ragpa - Jul. 25, 2024
A blue tree frog with a rare skin mutation

Ecologists at a remote Charnley River–Artesian Range Wildlife Sanctuary, have been amazed to discover a blue tree frog. It is the only known discovery of a magnificent tree frog with a blue skin pigment mutation. This is a rare mutation called axanthism, when the yellow pigments are inhibited and it just leaves the blue to come through. 


A frog with skin mutation hops into a workshop and sits on a bench—it sounds like the set-up of a joke, but it was actually the beginning of a rare scientific discovery.

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