Wednesday, June 11, 2008


I was going to do a blog today on one of the really colorful frogs, because I think they look really neat, but then I came across this frog and thought it was pretty cool, so I will do a blog later on some colorful frogs. This is a Gastric Brooding Frog. The picture to the left is a tiny frog coming out of the mommy frog’s mouth and that is a thumb behind the mommy frog’s head. It is sooooo tiny! The mommy frog actually keeps the baby frogs in her stomach until they grow legs and come hopping out, weird huh? This species of frog has baffled scientist, because they can’t figure out how the mommy frog turns off the production of hydrochloric acid while the baby frogs are growing in her actual stomach. This frog was found in Australia, but scientist think they are extinct, because they disappeared shortly after they were discovered. I think this is the strangest thing I have found on frogs so far.

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