{"id":28864,"date":"2024-12-20T06:57:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T01:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28864"},"modified":"2025-04-08T22:42:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T17:12:42","slug":"calyptocephallela-gayi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/calyptocephallela-gayi\/","title":{"rendered":"Calyptocephallela gayi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Calyptocephallela gayi:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is also known as <strong>Helmeted Water Toad<\/strong> which hopped alongside dinosaurs and is considered a &#8220;<strong>living fossil&#8221;.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is one of the largest frogs in the world, growing up to over 30 cm (1 foot) in length and weighing up to 1 kg (2.2 lbs).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Appearance:<\/strong> It is a robust species with a broad head and large mouth. It is very large, and can reach a snout\u2013to\u2013vent length of up to 15.5 cm (6 in) in males and 32 cm (13 in) in females.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat:<\/strong> They inhabit aquatic environments, such as <strong>lakes, rivers and ponds<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution:<\/strong> They are found in the <strong>lowlands of Chile<\/strong>, up to 500 m in elevation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation Status<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN: <\/strong>Vulnerable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Threats: <\/strong>Factors such as climate change, habitat interruption, environmental decline and pollution have all caused the Helmeted Water Toad&#8217;s numbers to dwindle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a living fossil?<\/h3>\n<p>It refers to an \u2018archaic\u2019 species that has survived for a long time, whose anatomy harks back to an early stage in the group\u2019s evolutionary tree and has remained unchanged for much of that period.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/chiles-giant-living-fossil-frog-faces-threat-from-climate-change-and-humans\/article69003614.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chile&#8217;s giant &#8216;living fossil&#8217; frog faces threat from climate change and humans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calyptocephallela gayi is also known as Helmeted Water Toad which hopped alongside dinosaurs and is considered a &#8220;living fossil&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}