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Reports on The Providence Journal, Science Daily, Albany Democrat-Herald and The Corvallis Advocate say Rhode Island's rarest frog may not be so rare

Reports on The Providence Journal, Science Daily, Albany Democrat-Herald and The Corvallis Advocate say Rhode Island's rarest frog may not be so rare

A Spadefoot Toad.

The eastern spadefoot toad is a state-endangered animal in Rhode Island that is known to populate only a handful of sites around the state.

But a newly-employed detection technique is shedding light on the population of Rhode Island’s rarest toad while also upending historically-accepted notions of the behavior of what was thought to be a secretive species.