Bizarre Frog Has No Lungs

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The first lungless frog has been discovered lurking in the jungles of Borneo.


The enigmatic amphibian, dubbed Barbourula kalimantanensis, apparently gets all the oxygen it needs through its skin.

Scientists first saw one of these frogs 30 years ago, but due to their rarity, just one other specimen had been collected since then and neither had been dissected.



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