Scientists at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum recently uncovered a mistake that dates back decades ...

Researchers discovered that a poison frog species described decades ago was based on a mix-up involving the wrong museum ...

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A decades-old mix-up in a museum collection led scientists to mistakenly identify a Peruvian poison frog as a new species.

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