Weirdest Frog In The World?
Discovered only about four years ago in India, the Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis is a “chubby, seven-centimeter-long, purple amphibian with a pointy snout.”
Scientists have given it the name Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis, from the Sanskrit word for nose (nasika); batrachus, meaning frog; and Sahyadri, the name for its mountain home.
Its head appears too small for its body and it looks more like a squat, grumpy blob than a living creature.
But to the scientists who describe it in the journal Nature, the frog is a beautiful find because of what it tells them about Earth history. Link
It looks like my old boss, Bob.
Posted by: Fish | Tuesday, March 20, 2007 at 09:36 PM