frogs
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Venomous Frogs Use Deadly Face Spines To Slay Their Enemies
It’s common sense that you shouldn’t try to eat a poison dart frog. But you probably don’t want to go anywhere near one of these adorable little suckers, which use the tiny, bony spines on their faces to jab threatening animals with a venom more potent than that of a deadly pit viper.
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Newly Discovered Frog Species Looks A Lot Like Kermit The Frog
We’ve found Kermit the Frog in real life and it’s a species of glassfrog just recently discovered called Hyalinobatrachium dianae in Costa Rica. It’s bright green just like Kermit, has big white adorable eyeballs just like Kermit and the males have a very unique mating call… just like Kermit, I guess? Anyway, the resemblance is…
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These Unbelievable Monsters With Seven Legs Are Actually Real Frogs
Brandon Ballengée made these beautiful prints of “terminally deformed frogs found in nature” using a clearing and staining process. He then scanned the bodies with a high resolution scanner. The results are fascinating.
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Say Hello To The World’s Smallest Vertebrate
This minute fellow — the one being dwarfed by a dime — just earned the distinction for not only being the smallest known frog species but also the smallest known species of vertebrate.