This frog needs to be renamed:
It’s surprising enough to find a frog with claws,” says Blackburn, a doctoral student in Harvard’s Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. “The fact that those claws work by cutting through the skin of the frogs’ feet is even more astonishing. These are the only vertebrate claws known to pierce their way to functionality
Here’s a picture of the claws coming out, but it’s kinda gross so I didn’t gank it.
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