Frog with no lungs found in Indonesian wild

[kickingfrog]

Article from the Globe and Mail... are we sure it's not just a new Berkley product???

 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...ry/Science/home

[Victor]

haha "lungless frog"

 

hmm ... deep-fried or bbq? lol

[Ramble]

coooooooooooooooooooool

[4thgen]

Quoted from the article:

 

"Mr. Bickford said the species is the first frog known to science without lungs and joins a short list of amphibians with this unusual trait, including a few species of salamanders and a wormlike creature known as a caecilian."

 

Unless by "a few species" of salamanders, he means about half (more than 250sp.) he is wrong.

 

Sorry, just getting ready to write a herpetology final...

[jonnybass]

Quoted from the article:

 

"Mr. Bickford said the species is the first frog known to science without lungs and joins a short list of amphibians with this unusual trait, including a few species of salamanders and a wormlike creature known as a caecilian."

 

Unless by "a few species" of salamanders, he means about half (more than 250sp.) he is wrong.

 

Sorry, just getting ready to write a herpetology final...

 

Semantics. (few, many, some, all, most, none, majority, minority of salamanders) Point being that this is the first frog ever discovered with this trait and is rare for amphibians, citing salamanders and caecilian as the rare exceptions.