Canaries in the coal mine baby!
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Inexile2002
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Frogs are more sensitive to environmental pollutants and toxins because they're able to absorb many of them directly through their skin. They're developmentally simple animals so mutations show up more easily in their external morphology. Interestingly, since frogs eggs are separate cells and the membrane (which also absorbs toxins) would probably prevent three developmental frogs from sticking, this is one frog that has developed three frogs - not some sort of conjoined twin thing. (Although the difference there is a matter of degree, not kind.)
This is the most dramatic example of what I've seen yet but frog mutations are extremely common. Check out this, or this (warning more gross pics). Does anyone but me wonder why we tolerate this level of contamination in our environment? I'm not a Green but I do object to being poisoned for some companies bottom line.
The real question is
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doconnor
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· Score: 3, Interesting
What did it look like when it was a tadpole?
Green in a nutshell
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ghostlibrary
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· Score: 4, Interesting
>I'm not a Green but I do object to being poisoned for some companies bottom line.
Err, I think you summarized the entire Green platform with that last bit. Beware, due to pollution and toxins, you might mutate into a Green, oh no!
Myself, I'm not a libertarian, I just want less government. I'm not a republican, I just want lower taxes. I'm not a democrat, I just want a lower debt. And I'm not an anarchist, I just post to slashdot occassionally:)
Don't forget we're talking about a frog. Something like this might be a real tragedy for a human being, because or our own social behaviour. But, from the social standpoint of a frog (if there's such a thing), I don't thing this is going to be a problem.
I guess the definition of "happiness" for a frog would be something like "being healthy and well-fed". This one looks quite happy to me.
Well, you've hit a strange subject that touches nether regions of the psyche there. To me, Siamese twins aren't nearly as "disgusting" as this creature, though one lower body with two torsos might come close. There's something about nature's mistakes when they happen at this level of sophistication -- between plant and mammal -- that hit me right in the creepy zone. As soon as I clicked the tab on the BBC story I clicked away before I could really grasp what this abomination looks like. There's a chthonic, nauseating, freakazation about it I don't want to sleep on. Yikes.
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Frogs are more sensitive to environmental pollutants and toxins because they're able to absorb many of them directly through their skin. They're developmentally simple animals so mutations show up more easily in their external morphology. Interestingly, since frogs eggs are separate cells and the membrane (which also absorbs toxins) would probably prevent three developmental frogs from sticking, this is one frog that has developed three frogs - not some sort of conjoined twin thing. (Although the difference there is a matter of degree, not kind.)
This is the most dramatic example of what I've seen yet but frog mutations are extremely common. Check out this, or this (warning more gross pics). Does anyone but me wonder why we tolerate this level of contamination in our environment? I'm not a Green but I do object to being poisoned for some companies bottom line.
What did it look like when it was a tadpole?
>I'm not a Green but I do object to being poisoned for some companies bottom line.
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Err, I think you summarized the entire Green platform with that last bit. Beware, due to pollution and toxins, you might mutate into a Green, oh no!
Myself, I'm not a libertarian, I just want less government. I'm not a republican, I just want lower taxes. I'm not a democrat, I just want a lower debt. And I'm not an anarchist, I just post to slashdot occassionally
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Don't forget we're talking about a frog. Something like this might be a real tragedy for a human being, because or our own social behaviour. But, from the social standpoint of a frog (if there's such a thing), I don't thing this is going to be a problem.
I guess the definition of "happiness" for a frog would be something like "being healthy and well-fed". This one looks quite happy to me.
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Well, you've hit a strange subject that touches nether regions of the psyche there. To me, Siamese twins aren't nearly as "disgusting" as this creature, though one lower body with two torsos might come close. There's something about nature's mistakes when they happen at this level of sophistication -- between plant and mammal -- that hit me right in the creepy zone. As soon as I clicked the tab on the BBC story I clicked away before I could really grasp what this abomination looks like. There's a chthonic, nauseating, freakazation about it I don't want to sleep on. Yikes.