Frog Found With 5 Legs, 23 Toes

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Minn. Frog Found With 5 Legs, 23 Toes
Some Experts Disturbed By Discovery

POSTED: 1:54 PM EDT August 25, 2004
UPDATED: 2:13 PM EDT August 25, 2004

A 9-year-old Minnesota girl found a five-legged frog with 23 toes near Stewartville, Minn., according to a report.

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Three of the frog's legs appear to be normal, but the fourth has another leg as an offshoot, with three feet attached to it.

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Cori Praska and a friend found the deformed frog in the southeastern part of the state.

This find is disturbing to some experts at the Quarry Hill Nature Center.

"It does concern me and mutations like this shouldn't happen that often," Greg Munson of the Quarry Hill Nature Center said.

Munson says 27 other frogs found by Praska were normal.

Experts say the animals are particularly sensitive to pollutants, which can be absorbed through their skin. Because of that, deformed frogs are considered a sign of environmental problems.

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[Clarsax]

I've heard about this. Some people have found frogs with as many as twelve legs. There are some hypotheses out there that it's linked to amphibians' slowly dissappearing and becoming endangered, and to some sort of health threat we can't see yet.

[grinner]

this?http://images.ibsys.com/2004/0825/3680711.jpg

[BrowderChick]

A frog like this is usually a sign of an enviromental issue.

[Antrobus]

It's actually not good ecological news, but it's been noted before.

On the other hand, some princess might kiss it and it would turn into a three legged man.

[BrowderChick]

It's actually not good ecological news, but it's been noted before.

On the other hand, some princess might kiss it and it would turn into a three legged man.
:ewink:

:lol

[Saajak]

This is actually fairly common, but I've been hearing about it less often and I've never actually seen one myself (even growing up near a river and a swamp). Amphibians are highly susceptible to pollutants due to the fact that they absorb a lot of stuff (for lack of a better term) through their skin. The most common hypothesis is that it's caused by agricultural pollutants in the water (pesticides), although no one was proved anything definitively.

[Frellster]

I live right next to a protected wetlands and I've seen hundreds of perfectly normal frogs. Not a mutant amongst them.

[faustus]

it's a super frog

[grinner]

Not a mutant amongst them.
and I bet Charles Xavier is most disappointed about that

[Shipscat]

The latest theory is that it's caused by a fungus, but that doesn't mean that the frogs aren't weakened in some way since this fungus didn't used to attack frogs.