RALEIGH, N.C. - No ordinary pond-hopper, the vampire flying frog has wowed herpetologists with its webbed feet, gliding ability and habit of laying eggs in tree holes 30 feet high.
But one thing sets the Vietnamese croaker apart from any known species on Earth: As a baby, it boasts a pair of black fangs.
"Fangs have never been seen before in a tadpole," said Bryan Stuart, a scientist who is part of a team that discovered it. "This is such an exciting time to be an amphibian biologist."
via msnbc.msn.com
A flying, vampire frog? What else is out there to be discovered?
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