Tag: frogs

toadschooled:

How did I not know that fire-bellied toads [in this case Bombina bombina] look like this when calling for females? I thought the frog in this video was sick, because although most frogs inflate themselves to keep from sinking while calling I’ve never seen one so bloated, but it turns out this is just a thing fire-bellies do sometimes. So much work for a call that’s just a tiny hoot.

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alarajrogers:

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slartibartfastibast:

Deep Frog

do you think this is what lovecraft meant whenever he described something as being beyond description

I hate how Tumblr often posts shit like this without any way to follow back to the origin for context. Does anyone know how this thing was achieved?

After scrolling way too far back through notes to find some explanation:

Deep Dream frog

(A little context: Google’s surreal ‘DeepDream’ image algorithm goes viral)

currentsinbiology:

Researchers Have Only Just Discovered That Frogs Have Tiny Knee Caps

The humble frog has been hiding a secret – like most birds, mammals, and a handful of reptiles, it has a kneecap.

This newly discovered piece of amphibian anatomy is barely a tiny blob of squishy cartilage, so nothing fancy, but the discovery could roll back our best guess on when kneecaps evolved.

A small team of Argentinian researchers were inspired by relatively recent discoveries of structures called sesamoids in species thought to be lacking in bony joint covers.

Sesamoids are bony material embedded in connective tissue such as the tendons over a joint. Knee caps, in other words.

They analysed the skeletons of 20 species of frog and found rudimentary structures that weren’t quite sesamoids, but weren’t like the surrounding connective tissue.

This research was published in The Anatomical Record.

Source: currentsinbiology