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An international team of researchers recently recovered a new species of frogs in the Foja Mountains of Indonesia.  Herpetologist (Expert in Reptiles & Amphibians) Paul Oliver found a frog sitting on a bag of rice, which turned out to be unknown type of Long-nosed frog. The scientist dubbed it Pinocchio. The long-nosed frog is strange in many senses, when the frog is calling, its nose points upward, but it deflects when the animal is less active. The Foja Mountain are in the western part of Island of New Guinea, a part of Indonesia. It has been little explored by the scientist over the past years.

Frogs are amphibians and vertebrates, they can adapt to many different surroundings, but they prefer damp surrounding, they dislike the cold winter weather, in some cold countries many frogs attempt to hibernate by digging a hole in the snow and burying themselves in hope that they will survive but most the time the snow freezes their body and because they're cold blooded they cannot tell the difference in temperature. Frogs are often confused with Toads as they both the same body structure, but they have different skin textures and can be different shaped with it, toads tend to have a rougher skin whereas frogs have smoother skin. 