Near a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sat a seasonal pond, formed during the wet season and already shrinking.

On a floodplain in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sat a shrinking pond, doomed to eventually dry up. Inside its murky waters swam a scaly blue creature with "large" yellow eyes. Something about ...

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