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Desert Spadefoot Frog, Australia, 1999

"A desert spadefoot frog surfaces with a wary stare at Australia's Alice Springs Desert Park. Life hides in unexpected places: These frogs wait for rain deep in the outback's red sands—for years, if need be."

—From "The Variety of Life," February 1999, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Frans Lanting