Frogs called gastric-brooding frogs (of the genus Rheobatrachus) had an unusual party trick. In these two species of Australian frog, females laid their eggs normally, and then the males fertilized the eggs by laying sperm on top of them.
But then things got weird, The female would swallow the fertilized eggs, and her body would shut off the digestive enzymes in her stomach, where the eggs would develop into little froglets. For the final coup de gras, the mother frog gave birth out of her mouth. Sadly, the only two species of this frog went extinct in the mid-1980s, probably because of timber harvesting in the regions where the animals lived, along with an infection caused by the chytrid fungus.
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Birthing a Frog From Mouth
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I've heard of these interesting froggies! While I always feel sadness when I hear about species going extinct, one thing I've learned about nature, and about reality, is that miracles are as natural as breathing, with some of the most incredibly improbable things occurring, like 'extinct' sepecies spontaneously reappearing, when conditions meet their needs once again. 😁🙏💚✨🤙
Yes, and usually "extinct" as far as we know. Where every thing comes and goes, it is all just par fer da course in dis moment of majickalness.
Yeppers, indeedy, you said it pepexceptionally well! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
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