Meet 7 newly described frog species, all named after Star Trek characters
Briefly

"These frogs' calls sound so much like the futuristic sounding whistles and beeps of the Star Trek series that they named each of the seven after a captain."
"When they looked at genetic information of these frogs and their calls, among other things, they realized there were seven distinct species beyond the original."
"I was sleeping on the floor in the living room, but I had Captain Kirk looking over me."
"There are over 400 known amphibian species in Madagascar, and Scherz guesses there could be hundreds more that scientists have not described."
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