andresont
05-29-2008, 07:43 AM
"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.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13991-horror-frog-breaks-own-bones-to-produce-claws.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news2_head_dn13991
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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.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13991-horror-frog-breaks-own-bones-to-produce-claws.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news2_head_dn13991
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