Three new animal species – two frogs and a gecko – have been discovered on a remote island in Australia’s north.

The animals were found on Dauan Island, a 3 sq km island in the far northern Torres Strait that is dominated by boulder fields.

Conrad Hoskin, an associate professor and terrestrial ecologist at James Cook University, described the new species after a research expedition to Dauan – the northernmost point of the Great Dividing Range. Hopes high as hundreds of critically endangered frogs survive release into wild in Victoria Read more

“When you approach it, it just looks like a big triangle sticking out of the sea, and as you get closer, you realise you’re looking at … car- and house-sized granite boulders piled up.

“We hiked up into all those boulder fields and found the

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