# Endangered giant burrowing frog returns to wild after tadpoles rescued from ashes of black summer fires

- Source: Guardian World
- Published: 2026-11-04T14:01:35+00:00
- Category: World
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/nov/05/giant-burrowing-frog-returns-to-wild-after-tadpoles-rescued-black-summer-fires-australia
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/endangered-giant-burrowing-frog-returns-to-wild-after-tadpoles-rescued-108aca/

Tadpoles collected from puddles in East Gippsland were transported to Melbourne zoo, where they were raised to metamorphosis and successfully bred in captivity for the first time After the 2019-20 black summer bushfires , scientists in eastern Victoria stumbled across something they had been after for years: puddles of tadpoles from the southern giant burrowing frog, one of the state’s most crypti

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