Friday 24 October 2014

Absurd Creature of the Week: The Vampire Frog That Devours Its Mother’s Eggs

Absurd Creature of the Week: The Vampire Frog That Devours Its Mother’s Eggs

The frog they’d found wasn’t particularly remarkable. As far as flying frogs go, its feet weren’t as comically large and webbed as, say, Helen’s flying frog (which Rowley also discovered, and named after her mother). But once Rowley got a tadpole under a microscope, she realized she’d found the most unique larval frog on Earth.


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