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New Frog Species Found In NYC

Posted by timothy on from the poison-stare-frog dept.

interval1066 writes "Ars Technica reports that a paper by biologists Catherine E. Newmana, Jeremy A. Feinbergb, Leslie J. Risslerc, Joanna Burgerb, and H. Bradley Shaffer, in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (abstract of paywalled article), describes a new subspecies of leopard frog has been found living exclusively in New York City. The researchers describe in the paper that the new frog has a distinctive croak, quite different from the two existing species of leopard frogs on the East Coast. The new frog is also stand-offish and tends to impotently honk its horn when stuck in traffic."

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  1. Okay by sociocapitalist · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes yes but how does it taste?

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    1. Re:Okay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      You write a summary like this. The toxin surely kicked in around the last sentence.

  2. TMNF? by Chas · · Score: 4, Funny

    So do they live in sewers and learn ninjitsu from rats?

    Oh wait. Wrong amphibians...

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  3. It's Croak by RivenAleem · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds a bit like it's saying "It's not easy being green"

    1. Re:It's Croak by dkleinsc · · Score: 2, Funny

      And here I was thinking it sounded like "Fuggedaboudit" instead of "ribbit".

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  4. The ones in the cars by mdsolar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are from Long Island.

  5. A truly ribbeting story by wiredog · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everyone should hop on over and read it.

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