Bringing baby-barfing frogs back from the dead?

[garethb2]

Originally published at: Bringing baby-barfing frogs back from the dead? | Boing Boing

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[euansmith]

Apparently, the scientists weren’t able to find the entire genome for these frogs, and so replaced some of the frog DNA with dinosaur DNA.

Edited for added sexiness.

[Flossaluzitarin]

I’m here for the “Who’s gastric brooding now?” film line. RomCom horror fusion.

[tcg550]

Coincidentally, this was on the retro channel last night.

Frogs (1972) - Official Trailer (HD)

[Immutable_Mike]

A young Sam Elliot in exceptionally tight trousers and Ray Milland being grumpy, Columba-era Ray Milland. One of the most 70’s movies ever.

[tcg550]

I was also going to post the clip from Psychomania, you know the frog worshiping cult biker flick also from the '70s and a mainstay for the cult horror host famous in Cleveland and Detroit, The Ghoul. But Frogs was on the teevee.

The Ghoul also got a hold of Froggy from the '50s and did all kinds of horrible things to him.

Now I’m all frogged out.

Psychomania AKA The Death Wheelers - 1973

Froggy the Gremlin and Lecturers

Ghoul Froggy Suitcase

[Fef]

I mean, “Some species are extinct for a reason” sounds like a horror film tag line, but raising one’s brood in one’s own stomach seems like a pretty good reason.

[AnthonyC]

Yeah, but also kinda evolutionarily brilliant, if your evolutionary path didn’t happen to stumble across internal gestation, eggs that can hatch offspring big enough to survive reliably, or parenting after hatching/birth.

[euansmith]

In Psychomania, you can tell that Satan is evil; he shoots flashback scenes in portrait mode.

[smulder]

@euansmith

Edited for added sexiness.

… We are all moving in perfect peace and harmony towards Elvisness / Soon all will become Elvis

[Beanolini]

@garethb2

Bringing baby-barfing frogs back from the dead

There are still ‘baby-barfing’ frogs- Darwin’s frog males rear eggs in their vocal sacs and bring forth tiny frogs from their mouth.

Frog Father "Spits Out" Young | World's Weirdest

@AnthonyC

if your evolutionary path didn’t happen to stumble across internal gestation, eggs that can hatch offspring big enough to survive reliably, or parenting after hatching/birth.

Reproductive diversity is one of the great things about frogs- there are species that do each of those things; e.g. Surinam toad, Coqui, and African bullfrog respectively.

Though some frogs have internal fertilisation, e.g. tailed frogs (spoiler: that’s not a tail), I don’t think there are any that have internal gestation as well.