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> Bizarre Frog Has No Lungs!
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post Apr 8 2008, 07:24 AM
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It seems that frogs in general have adapted some of the most interesting traits.
Perhaps there could be other lungless creatures we have yet to discover.

http://www.livescience.com/animals/080407-lungless-frog.html


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post Apr 8 2008, 07:24 AM
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post Apr 8 2008, 04:19 PM
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Thats wild! I wonder if any more creatures out there are lungless.


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post Apr 8 2008, 05:55 PM
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Makes you wonder what may lie elsewhere. It would be fun to write a computer program that you input planetary conditions, atmosphere etc, and it predicted possible life form evolution. But I guess you would have to be a biologist, geologist, darwinologist and and everything else ologist to do it.
But a frog with no lungs is pretty weird.
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post Apr 9 2008, 06:03 AM
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Insects and fish are all lungless. Insects breathe through their skin.


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post Apr 9 2008, 11:05 AM
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QUOTE (senhuan @ Apr 9 2008, 06:53 AM) *
Insects and fish are all lungless. Insects breathe through their skin.


But for insects, that is normal and always the way it is.
Fish has gills.

I wonder how long it can stay underwater?


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post Apr 10 2008, 04:40 AM
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What I wonder is truly how "lungless" is it? People always take things out of context and assume a lot. Perhaps they are simply not lungs as we know them to be in the average frog. Perhaps the lung tissue is in its' throat, where the oxygen meets the blood barrier, just like in normal lungs. That can certainly be called "lungless", but has to be explained further than just the buzz word.

I'd like to know exactly how it's lungless. Sounds interesting, for sure.

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post Apr 10 2008, 07:58 AM
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The story stated that the frog absorbs oxygen through it's skin.


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post Apr 10 2008, 09:55 PM
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QUOTE (SOUL-DRIFTER @ Apr 10 2008, 02:48 PM) *
The story stated that the frog absorbs oxygen through it's skin.


Yes, my bad.
I wonder what's in place of its' lungs? Are the other organs taking up the space? Is there a proto-lung? Another organ? A lung remnant? Did they evolve without lungs, or did they evolve past lungs?


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post Apr 11 2008, 05:16 PM
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They are still studying it. I am sure they will have those answers soon.


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post Apr 12 2008, 06:08 AM
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Did you see the two nostrils in the photo?


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post Apr 13 2008, 03:12 AM
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In France, lung-less 'frogs' are hard to come by..... rolleyessmileyanim.gif


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post Apr 18 2008, 11:12 PM
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All frogs can breath through their skin as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog#Skin

They must use lungs, however, when on land. I would assume then, that these newly discovered frogs are never too far from the water for very long.
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