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Author Topic:   Frog without lungs found in Indonesia
Stile
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Message 1 of 3 (462884)
04-10-2008 10:09 AM


David Bickford, an evolutionary biologist at the National University of Singapore writes:
the species is the first frog known to science without lungs and joins a short list of amphibians with this unusual trait
http://news.yahoo.com/...ap_on_fe_st/indonesia_lungless_frog
Look ma, no lungs!

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Message 2 of 3 (462961)
04-10-2008 10:11 PM
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04-10-2008 10:09 AM


Bickford and Gillespie said the frog's discovery adds urgency to the need to protect its river habitat, which in recent years has become polluted due to widespread illegal logging and gold mining. Once-pristine waters are now brown and clogged with silt, they said.
"The gold mining is completely illegal and small scale. But when there are thousands of them on the river, it really has a huge impact," Bickford said. "Pretty soon the frogs will run out of the river."
Typically, no sooner do we discover a remarkable creature like this than we risk wiping the poor thing out. Still, you have to marvel at nature's never ending capacity to astonish.

Mutate and Survive

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04-10-2008 10:22 PM


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