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When going on a nature walk, an Indian scientist discovered something astounding — a frog that seemed to have a mushroom growing out of it.

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Scientists Surprised to Find Mushroom Growing Out of Frog

By Noor Al-Sibai

Female European common frogs are taking ghosting to a whole new level, playing dead to deter unwanted males from latching onto them.

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Female Frogs Have an Effective Strategy for Dealing With Annoying Males: Pretend to Be Dead

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A mile-and-a-half wide swarm of hundreds of thousands of tiny toads reportedly overtook a stretch of road in Utah last week.

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Drivers Horrified as Writhing Toads Cover Entire Surface of Road

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Evolution seems to have sped up near Chernobyl, where a small type of tree frog has changed substantially since the 1986 nuclear meltdown.

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Something Cool Is Happening to the Frogs at Chernobyl

By Noor Al-Sibai

A UK-based TikTok claims to have collected more than 1.4 million frog eggs, which have since hatched into tadpoles living in his backyard pool — and conservation biologists are horrified by the potential consequences of the trend could going viral, The Guardian reports.

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Experts Alarmed by Teen Breeding Millions of Frogs for “Frog Army”

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists built a new remote acoustic survey tool to track wild frog populations. The best part is they decided to name it the FrogPhone.

Scientists Built a “FrogPhone” to Remotely Survey Frog Habitats

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have created a bioreactor device that helps regrow limbs on frogs when worn for just 24 hours post-amputation.

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A Wearable Device Helped Frogs Regrow Their Amputated Limbs

By Kristin Houser