so thats what happens to the curry leftovers...

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I'm sure it's a definite evolutionary advantage. Now it's got three tongues to catch flies with

Saw that on TV *shudder*. All those legs...

Okay, that's neat. Maybe it's really smart, does it live near a power plant? That could be a reason.

This is in England, and I live in the U.S, so it wasn't me this time, I swear.

i'm not nerdy I'm just... uh.... uh... yeah, I'm nerdy.

Edited by - Someone of importance on 3/7/2004 12:40:39 PM

While six legs and three heads could conceivably come in handy, it is not aesthetically pleasing. It reminds me of the "three-eyed fish" in the Simpsons; I wonder whether the mutation was caused by external factors, or just a birth defect?

Most likely birth defect caused by external influences.
I'd say it's evo, or maybe even revo.

I think its environment, chemical, pollution ect. Birth defects have been around for people and cattle for years due to the environment. The poor frog is probably the same. Now though, he can get celebrity status.

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that is DEFINATLY not evolution...

regardless of what you may have learned from XMen, evolution takes millions of years and proceeds through selectively breeding out unwanted traits, or breeding in helpfull ones. it takes thousands of generations...

that is interesting though...good find

Kyp

The other day, in study hall, i farted really loud, you know...so the guys would laugh...and i swear it was so hanus that Susie Johnson almost ralphed up her salsbury steak.
it was freakin sweet...

Thanks, Kyp. I must state though, that I know about evolution, and the length of time it takes. I am University educated after all...

I'd say it could have been 3 seperates that fused somehow or a mutant (extra chromosomes abound!) Dunno the cause though, gotta see if it's fertile or not.

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lol...sorry Esqui, one can never be certain of the amount of education other people have on the net. i just answered assuming you had no idea...

if i had to guess i'd say something got mixed up when the young frogs were still in the egg stage...i can't see them fusing together after all being individual tad-poles...but as eggs maybe...

Kyp

The other day, in study hall, i farted really loud, you know...so the guys would laugh...and i swear it was so hanus that Susie Johnson almost ralphed up her salsbury steak.
it was freakin sweet...

I agree that it isn't evolution but I don't agree that it has to take millions of years be an evolved process. No one is sure anymore whether it takes all that much time for a change in a species to propogate. But it still is a matter of years rather than seconds, minutes or hours, of course.

But going back to the frog, I think that this has been noticed in many countries, here in the US as well. I don't know if they have found conclusive proof but I think that most biologists believe that it is the result of man made chemical run-off that is contaminating the water or breeding environment of the frogs. The other thing is that their numbers are dropping off rather dramatically. This takes yet another natural pest control asset out of our environment.

my guess is that they split inside the spawn as an egg into three different cells, but merged together again and started to absorb each other. This happens in the womb in mammals with conjoined twins although it's often more to do with them failing to fully separate than re-merging together, on very rare occasions this becomes a parasitical organism (ie a foetus in foetu). What's really remarkable is that the three conjoined frogs obviously have someway of getting nutrients to all of them and that they managed to survive into adulthood, I can't imagine that a 3-headed tadpole would have been particularly fast or have very good chances of survival in the face of predators.

That's ok, Kyp. I love using my "Univesity educated" in-joke. It has been amusing me for the last three years!

I haven't seen any three-headed animals in Australia though...