Three newly discovered toads give birth to live young

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An international team of researchers has discovered three new, bizarre, and wart-covered species of tree toads from Tanzania that give birth to fully developed toadlets. A key element of the study was the examination of specimens housed in the wet collection of the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, highlighting the continuing importance of natural history collections for scientific research and biodiversity conservation. The study was published today in the open-access journal Vertebrate Zoology.