Ever flushed a toilet in the Australian outback and seen a frog staring back at you? These so-called “dunny frogs”—famous for ...

His efforts also included backing the shutdown of a controversial oil drilling project in Ecuador's Yasuni National Park, which led scientists to name a newly discovered frog species after him.

The team called the frog Astrobatrachus kurichiyana — with a genus name that includes “astro” for the frog’s bluish-white starlike dots, and species name that refers to the indigenous ...