Rheobatrachus, whose members are known as the gastric-brooding frogs or platypus frogs, is a genus of extinct ground-dwelling frogs native to Queensland in eastern Australia. The genus consisted of only two species, the southern and northern gastric-brooding frogs, both of which became extinct in the mid-1980s.

2022年3月26日 · The Gastric Brooding Frog is a genus of extinct amphibians that consisted of two species, the Northern Gastric Brooding Frog and the Southern Gastric Brooding Frog. They were endemic to a limited region in Australia and went into permanent disappeared in …

2013年3月15日 · Archer’s team of scientists had loaded it with the DNA of the southern gastric brooding frog —a bizarre creature that has been extinct for almost 30 years. The fact that it started to grow into...

2015年1月26日 · The Southern Gastric-Brooding Frog (Rheobatrachus silus) was an aquatic frog that lived in south-east Australia. In 2002, the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List declared the frog extinct, although no wild specimens had been reported since 1981.

2021年11月14日 · The Eungella gastric-brooding frog is now believed extinct — but in a real-life Jurassic Park scenario, some scientists are working to undo that.

Among the casualties of the current human-induced mass extinction event are the two species of Gastric Brooding Frog from the rainforest of Queensland, Australia: the Northern Gastric Brooding Frog (Rheobatrachus vitellinus) and the Gastric Brooding Frog (Rheobatrachus silus).

2013年3月16日 · Taking place at the University of Newcastle, the quest to revive the gastric-brooding frog became known as the Lazarus Project. Using somatic-cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), a method for...

The southern and northern gastric brooding frogs (Rheobatrachus silus and Rheobatrachus vitellinus) were discovered in 1972 and 1984 in Queensland, Australia respectively. Both being very small (about 30–54 mm for the southern and 55–80 mm for the northern species) and living in a limited rainforest area (less than 1000 km 2 ), they lived ...

2021年9月3日 · The Southern Gastric Brooding Frog, Rheobatrachus silus, lived in the Conondale and Blackall Ranges north of Brisbane and its northern counterpart, R. vitellinus (commonly called the Northern Gastric Brooding Frog) was found in fast flowing, rainforest streams in the Clarke Range, west of Mackay.

2013年3月16日 · The gastric brooding frog existed 30 years ago, but the extraordinary amphibian is now extinct. In a world first, a team of Australian scientists has taken the first major step in bringing it back ...