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Mr. Handsome: May not be around for long.

With such flashy looks, the harlequin frog seems like it would be easy to spot. But scientists hadn’t seen one of its kind for 14 years, until it was “rediscovered” last month in the mountain forests of Colombia. The rare find —technically known as a Carrikeri harlequin frog — is good news for South America’s amphibian species, which have been disappearing at an alarming rate, experts say. But for other amphibians in the region-including dozens of other harlequin frog species — the prospects remain grim, said Luis Rueda, a biologist with the nonprofit Conservation Leadership Programme who led the expedition that made the find.

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