Well, I guess we can call off the whole global warming thing then. I'm going to go out back and start a styrofoam bonfire.

2xhelix:



/LIKE IT IS HOT

2xhelix: shanrick: That's not funny, that's sick!

Concurs with you:



/but I think it's funny

Oddly fitting.

I'll bite that dragonflies or whatever were eating legs and causing missing limbs. That doesn't explain frogs with extra legs.

2xhelix: shanrick: That's not funny, that's sick!

No it's Gross.

I thought Global Warming wasn't going to be catastrophic because we'll run out of oil first.

I've actually been worried about this thalidomide frog thing. Silly, silly me. When will I ever learn.

Ive heard at least seven different times that this case has been solved. Nematodes, pollution, pesticides, Global Planet Change, acid rain, etc.

Not holding my breath.

marklar: I'll bite that dragonflies or whatever were eating legs and causing missing limbs. That doesn't explain frogs with extra legs.

FTA: After a long period of research, Sessions and other researchers established that many amphibians with extra limbs were actually infected by small parasitic flatworms called Riberoria trematodes.

These creatures burrow into the hindquarters of tadpoles where they physically rearrange the limb bud cells and thereby interfere with limb development.

MentalMoment: 2xhelix: shanrick: That's not funny, that's sick!

No it's Gross.

Tis a classic Nat. Lampoon cartoon. Back from when people could eat animals without some self righteous douche trust-funder protesting his right to eat.

marklar: I'll bite that dragonflies or whatever were eating legs and causing missing limbs. That doesn't explain frogs with extra legs.

FTFA

The video was oddly quite disturbing.

marklar: I'll bite that dragonflies or whatever were eating legs and causing missing limbs. That doesn't explain frogs with extra legs.

FTA

After a long period of research, Sessions and other researchers established that many amphibians with extra limbs were actually infected by small parasitic flatworms called Riberoria trematodes.

These creatures burrow into the hindquarters of tadpoles where they physically rearrange the limb bud cells and thereby interfere with limb development.

marklar: I'll bite that dragonflies or whatever were eating legs and causing missing limbs. That doesn't explain frogs with extra legs.

Well, some of the dragonfly nymphs dropped their frog legs and another tadpole picked them up and sewed them on to itself.

kibbled: marklar: I'll bite that dragonflies or whatever were eating legs and causing missing limbs. That doesn't explain frogs with extra legs.

FTFA


After a long period of research, Sessions and other researchers established that many amphibians with extra limbs were actually infected by small parasitic flatworms called Riberoria trematodes.

FTFA
whoops

amazing_live_seamonkeys: MentalMoment: 2xhelix: shanrick: That's not funny, that's sick!

No it's Gross.

Tis a classic Nat. Lampoon cartoon. Back from when people could eat animals without some self righteous douche trust-funder protesting his right to eat.

It isnt funny, but it is sick though.

marklar: I'll bite that dragonflies or whatever were eating legs and causing missing limbs. That doesn't explain frogs with extra legs.

RTFA

marklar: I'll bite that dragonflies or whatever were eating legs and causing missing limbs. That doesn't explain frogs with extra legs.

FTFA: After a long period of research, Sessions and other researchers established that many amphibians with extra limbs were actually infected by small parasitic flatworms called Riberoria trematodes.

These creatures burrow into the hindquarters of tadpoles where they physically rearrange the limb bud cells and thereby interfere with limb development.


/Read the article much?

marklar: I'll bite that dragonflies or whatever were eating legs and causing missing limbs. That doesn't explain frogs with extra legs.

You could always try reading the article. Just sayin'. I mean it's right there.

This doesn't explain why I was born with that extra nipple.

Rozinante: This doesn't explain why I was born with that extra nipple.

Girl from total recall is your mother?

Bek: Well, I guess we can call off the whole global warming thing then. I'm going to go out back and start a styrofoam bonfire.

So a biologist demonstrates that frog leg deformities are likely natural and not caused by pollution or the ozone hole, and your reaction is to get all defensive about global warming?

Damn I'm slow.

/Self kick

still doesn't explain the frog with an eye in its mouth.

marklar: I'll bite that dragonflies or whatever were eating legs and causing missing limbs. That doesn't explain frogs with extra legs.

RTFA

/everyone else is doing it
//I can't handle the peer pressure!

I lol'd

I'd like to further note that DDT itself doesn't kill fish and wildlife... the mildly detergent oily wax substrate it must be mixed with in order to spread evenly does.

DDT? Wrestlers are involved?

Deniers of anthropogenic frog leg deformities are worse than holocaust deniers and almost as bad as anthropogenic global warming deniers.

marklar: I'll bite that dragonflies or whatever were eating legs and causing missing limbs. That doesn't explain frogs with extra legs.

The theory is it's a parasite (from here ^{(^)}):

Parasitologists regard the life cycle of the tapeworm Spirometra mansonoides, the cause of sparganosis, as one of the most complex in nature. This organism requires several intermediate animal hosts to complete the journey from egg to adult parasite: It starts as a non-parasitic microscopic larva, swimming free (for about an hour, while its own stored energy lasts) in stagnant fresh water, then is sequentially consumed to infect (and, in turn, consume portions of) a crustacean, a tadpole and its adult equivalent the frog, or alternatively a snake or fish, finally ending its journey as a mature worm in the small intestine of a cat, tiger, leopard, panther, or other felid. With each host, it undergoes transformations culminating in adulthood--much like a butterfly, except that the parasite depends on other life forms.

Tawnos: Rozinante: This doesn't explain why I was born with that extra nipple.

Girl from total recall is your mother?

I was a well-fed baby.

Oops, wrong parasite. Damn, frogs got it tough: one parasite makes 'em obese, another gives them extra legs...

The question is: how close is KFC from harnessing frog parasite technology?

That is a possible answer for deformed or missing legs, but not for multiple legs.

I went to school with a kid who had an extra nipple. It was at the bottom of his rib cage. When he hit puberty, it grew hair around it.

2xhelix: amazing_live_seamonkeys: amazing_live_seamonkeys: MentalMoment: 2xhelix: shanrick: That's not funny, that's sick!

No it's Gross.

Tis a classic Nat. Lampoon cartoon. Back from when people could eat animals without some self righteous douche trust-funder protesting his right to eat.

It isnt funny, but it is sick though.

/Watches both jokes as they travel over your head.

I got em, Im just inarticulate and slow.

MBA Whore: That is a possible answer for deformed or missing legs, but not for multiple legs.

hehehe almost got me. 5/10

2xhelix: amazing_live_seamonkeys: amazing_live_seamonkeys: MentalMoment: 2xhelix: shanrick: That's not funny, that's sick!

No it's Gross.

Tis a classic Nat. Lampoon cartoon. Back from when people could eat animals without some self righteous douche trust-funder protesting his right to eat.

It isnt funny, but it is sick though.

/Watches both jokes as they travel over your head.

Came for the 'toon. Left waaaaay more than satisfied.

brap: That "deformed toad" JUST HAPPENS TO BE MY WIFE!

- Sorry, it's a disease. Parasiticus Vaudvillian Brainwormicus.

I've got a raging case of Roxoplasmosis :-/


"I snort your brain! Yeyeyeyeah!"

Well, frog legs are delicious!

My research has produced an alternate explanation

Well duh...

I work with frogs (see my user name...). And this has all been common knowledge for years at least. The parasite thing was a little bit "cutting edge" a few years ago (before I got into the field), and the dragonfly thing is just farkin' obvious if you've ever worked with frog larvae and dragonflies (who hasn't?)

/Dragonfly larvae are on my short list of things I'm really glad aren't bigger.
//the parasite bit could still involve interactions with who knows how many things, ecology/the real world is fun like that

Ugh. Watched the video near the bottom of the article. That actually made me squirm... they're showing a Dragonfly Nymph eating off this poor tadpole's back leg, and the poor taddy is just trying to wriggle away.

I know, I'm a wuss, but that was just sad to watch.

Pseudacris: Well duh...

this has all been common knowledge for years at least. The parasite thing was a little bit "cutting edge" a few years agot

came here to say this.