A group of international scientists have banded together to save an endangered amphibian known as the 'scrotum frog'.
The 'scrotum frogs', or telmatobius culeus, live primarily near Lake Titicaca on the border of Peru and Bolivia.
Their loose skin creates large flaps and folds across their body which has earned them their unfortunate nickname.
They're considered endangered due to overharvesting for traditional medicine. The amphibians are thought to be an aphrodisiac and are mixed into a drink called "frog juice". Their bodies are also worn as amulets.
The frog is also under threat from mining pollution and invasive trout which eat their tadpoles, reports the BBC.
But scientists from Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and the US are determined to save the unusual amphibian and have launched a project to preserve the dwindling population.
The project was announced by Bolivia's Natural History Museum and will allow scientists to study the frogs' underwater habitats and evaluate their population statistics.
They will also carry out genetic analyses to determine how best to protect the frogs.
It's difficult to know how many of the scrotum frogs are left due to the size of Lake Titicaca, but it's estimated more than 90 percent of the population could have disappeared.
A mass die-out in 2016 made headlines when more than 10,000 of the frogs died suddenly.
No one could figure out why such a large amount suddenly dropped dead, but it was thought a sewage run-off could have contributed.
