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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Clawed Frog

"'Amphibian horror' isn't a movie genre, but on this evidence perhaps it should be. Harvard biologists have described a bizarre, hairy frog with cat-like extendable claws.
"Trichobatrachus robustus
actively breaks its own bones to produce claws that puncture their way out of the frog's toe pads, probably when it is threatened."


Details at New Scientist.

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