Kermit the Frog Look Alike Discovered In Costa Rica

One of the characteristics that sets the new species apart from other glass frogs is the advertisement call males use to attract females. The researchers recorded this frog call in the field and found that it consists of a single tonal long metallic whistle-like note, according to a description of the new species published earlier this year in the journal Zootaxa. Study leader Brian Kubicki told CBS News that this frog sounds more like an insect than most other frogs, which might be why it went unnoticed for so long. DNA tests also proved the frog species was separate from its closest cousin, Hyalinobatrachium chirripoi, the researchers wrote. The scientists picked the species name dianae as an ode to Janet Diana Kubicki, the mother of study leader Kubicki, and as an allusion to Diana, the mountain-loving Roman goddess of the hunt and wild animals.