Scientific Name
Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis
WILD POPULATION
UNKNOWN
LOCATION
TAMIL NADU
IUCN RED LIST
ENDANGERED
CONTRIBUTORS
DR. SUTIRTHA DUTTA
VASUDEVAN
In 2003, a group of scientists discovered the purple frog, an enigmatic species that is endemic to India. This frog lives underground for most part of the year, and comes out to breed only when the monsoon arrives. Malaika Vaz goes in search of the purple frog with scientist, Dr. Karthikeyan Vasudevan, to understand how a creature, so small, can explain 130 million years of evolution!.