--- title: New Frog Species Looks Like Kermit description: Scientist Brian Kubicki claims a new species of glassfrog Hyalinobatrachium dianae has been discovered in the Talamanca Mountains canonical: https://time.com/3828716/new-species-kermit-frog-costa-rica/ author: Olivia B. 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(Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images)Cindy Ord—Getty Images  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 20, 2015 9:46 PM UTC Photos of a “newly discovered and described” translucent species of frog are [going viral](https://www.facebook.com/cramphibian/photos/a.146452698826058.30676.113875372083791/515087145295943/?type=1&theater) because media outlets say the creature looks like Kermit the Frog. Brian Kubicki, founder of the Costa Rican Amphibian Research Center, claims his team has found six specimens of a type of glass frog that has been called _Hyalinobatrachium dianae_ in the Talamanca Mountains. “With the addition of this newly described species, Costa Rica is known to have 14 glassfrogs inhabiting its tiny national territory,” [according to a statemen](https://www.facebook.com/cramphibian/photos/a.146452698826058.30676.113875372083791/515087145295943/?type=1&theater)t on the center’s Facebook page. The findings are [detailed in a piece](http://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/z03920p084f.pdf) recently published in the journal _Zootaxa_ by Kubicki, with co-authors Stanley Salazar and Robert Puschendorf. Is that Kermit? Newfound species resembles the world's most famous frog [pic.twitter.com/IIOivri5yV](http://t.co/IIOivri5yV) — TODAY (@TODAYshow) [April 20, 2015](https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/590135462439694336?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) Newly discovered Costa Rican glassfrog species is a [#Kermit](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kermit?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) look-alike [#FNSciTech](https://twitter.com/hashtag/FNSciTech?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/FYhr8sdoJt](http://t.co/FYhr8sdoJt) — Fox News SciTech (@FoxNewsTech) [April 20, 2015](https://twitter.com/FoxNewsTech/status/590247604195168256?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) If you think this real frog (on the right) looks exactly like Kermit (on the left) -- RETWEET! [pic.twitter.com/ifwWBw71sT](http://t.co/ifwWBw71sT) — WPXI (@WPXI) [April 20, 2015](https://twitter.com/WPXI/status/590247851424358400?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3828716/new-species-kermit-frog-costa-rica/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3828716/new-species-kermit-frog-costa-rica/"},"headline":"Scientists Claim They Found a New Species of Frog, and It Looks Like Kermit","datePublished":"2015-04-20T21:46:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:56.698Z","description":"Found in Costa Rica's Talamanca Mountains","url":"https://time.com/3828716/new-species-kermit-frog-costa-rica/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Science topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfb177ca8dd0df3fd/6987ebf00b72e3064b6e1954/479414715.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. 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