The Utterly Bizarre Skeletons of Frogs | BUSTED BONES
566Frogs are the best things ever. Everyone loves them because they are all cute. Even toads are cute in their own warty way. On top of that, they seem to be running hypercarnivore software on toothless gas-bag hardware. Aside from what everyone already knows about them, they are some of the weirdest tetrapods – or four-limbed animals – for a whole bunch of reasons topped by whatever the hell is or isn’t going on with their skeletons. Let’s take a look at the bones of frogs and see why it is that they are way weirder than we give them credit for. __________________________________________________________________
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RESEARCH
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