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Frog without lungs found in Indonesia

news.yahoo.com — A frog has been found in a remote part of Indonesia that has no lungs and breathes through its skin, a discovery that researchers said Thursday could provide insight into what drives evolution in certain species.

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  • Dhalgren, on 04/11/2008, -3/+34When did Digg start filtering swear words? I had to login to see the "*****"...
  • Fogdelune, on 04/11/2008, -2/+26That frog is the handiwork of the devil.
  • nahsrocketeer75, on 04/11/2008, -0/+22FTA: "Bickford's Indonesian colleague, Djoko Iskandar, first came across the frog 30 years ago and has been searching for it ever since. He didn't know the frog was lungless until they cut eight of the specimens open in the lab." ... Now *that* brings back memories of high school.
  • mecharabbit, on 04/11/2008, -0/+21Did he think the first 7 frogs were just flukes?
  • tamurlane6, on 04/11/2008, -2/+22you know what's great about that statement... It took this guy thirty years to find these frogs again and he proceeds to cut eight of them to pieces. I just think that's funny.
  • chudgoo, on 04/11/2008, -12/+29Suck on THAT, GOD!
  • cowsgonemadd3, on 04/11/2008, -0/+16To feed baby reptars?
  • inactive, on 04/11/2008, -0/+16This totally explains why frogs don't smoke.
  • clarity661, on 04/11/2008, -0/+13KILL THE MUTANT!
  • shaka999, on 04/11/2008, -1/+12Yeah, thats not evolution its mutation. Now, if you bread and that extra root is passed on and gives your offspring an advantage over others then you can call it evolution.
  • turpenine, on 04/11/2008, -0/+10reptar.
  • avaugha4, on 04/11/2008, -0/+9Humans and other apes are descended from a common ancestor whose population split to become two (and more) lineages. The question is rather like asking, "If many Americans and Australians are descended from Europeans, why are there still Europeans around?"
  • carpespasm, on 04/11/2008, -0/+9because there are plenty of people that would otherwise ask "Then how does it breathe?"
  • bk1808, on 04/11/2008, -0/+8Lungs are actually fully developed in anurans. The skin serves as a supplemental air exchange resource when in the presence of water, if frogs "hardly" used their lungs for respiration, as you say, how would frogs being able to exchange gases when out of the water or in stagnant water that has low levels of oxygen?
  • Zarokima, on 04/11/2008, -2/+10/slaps ass

    Is that good enough, Sally?
  • Zarokima, on 04/11/2008, -3/+11Yeah, he'd have more luck asking Tera Patrick. At least she exists.
  • JPOOPOO, on 04/11/2008, -2/+9"a discovery that researchers said Thursday could provide insight into what drives evolution in certain species."

    Change is what drives evolution, its really pretty obvious.
  • yossarian24, on 04/11/2008, -1/+8All frogs breathe through their skin... while it is still an interesting discovery, it should be noted that the "lungs" found in all other frogs are extremely underdeveloped and hardly used for respiration... verrrrry cool though
  • indiancompanion, on 04/11/2008, -0/+7Are we supposed to take this comment seriously or not? Well to answer your question, evolution does not happen in a straight line, it branches off into many different things and not all things die off.
  • nomadofthehills, on 04/11/2008, -0/+7This article mentions that "a few" other salamanders are lungless... try over TWO HUNDRED, in the family Plethodontidae.
  • byah, on 04/11/2008, -2/+9yeah, but the holy ***** factor was their lack of lungs.
  • inactive, on 04/11/2008, -0/+61. Appendix
    2. Lungs
    3. Male Nipples?
  • Hillsfar, on 04/11/2008, -1/+7Considering the fragile state of the Indonesian rain forests... and the significant discoveries are are still making...
    It means there are things in nature that have disappeared, that we'll never know. Life forms that could give us insight into hibernation, longevity, a cure for cancer... may have already become extinct. We're literally killing our future.
  • Baxxoo, on 04/11/2008, -2/+8yes... it breaths through its skin...
    BUT WILL IT BLEND?
  • hcl40u, on 04/11/2008, -0/+5I think profanity filtering is turned on by default if you aren't logged in.
  • atlantocide, on 04/11/2008, -0/+5Reptar is totally a dude though...
  • atlantocide, on 04/11/2008, -0/+5Why, pray tell, does reptar have breasts?
  • inactive, on 04/11/2008, -1/+5your life is more pointless than the stories.
  • alenox, on 04/11/2008, -0/+4Yes and Mccain's spritual advisor is an evolutionist?
  • yossarian24, on 04/11/2008, -5/+9Pure evolutionists on digg are soo much more agressive about pushing their ideas than creationists are... I believe in evolution, I think it's how God created life on this planet, let's see if I get buried for saying the "G" word
  • schmitey, on 04/11/2008, -0/+4I don't understand how this is a discovery honestly. Many aquatic amphibians (newts, salamanders, etc) will die if their skin dries up. Yes they have lungs, but they're undeveloped and most respiration is done through the skin. On a different note there are fish larvae that don't have jaws, they absorb nutrients through their skin. This is nothing new and should have been expected IMO.
  • NecroSexy, on 04/11/2008, -1/+5Well, about 99% of all the species that have ever existed are now extinct. A God is behind this "design"?
  • CaptainM4d, on 04/11/2008, -0/+4evolution ftw!
  • jordanau, on 04/11/2008, -0/+4If they are mini Jabba the Huts, then why didn't Jabba breathe through his skin when he was getting choked by Princess Leia?
  • johnnysaucepn, on 04/11/2008, -0/+4Because it breathes through its skin and NOTHING ELSE.
  • schmitey, on 04/11/2008, -0/+3I feel the exact same way. Species evolve, end of story. I doubted it at first, but as I learned about very basic genetics I realized how quickly a speciation event can take place. Like you, I'm more interested in what drives and/or started it.
  • spinaltap87, on 04/11/2008, -0/+3I stay logged in all the time mang
  • carpespasm, on 04/11/2008, -2/+5I simply fail to see what evidence there is for believing there's an all-powerful supernatural being that created the earliest life on earth. Also, why mention the different types of animals without mention to how this was done? he mentions plenty about how adam and eve were made, but never mentions "the fish begot the lizard that begot the chicken and the cow."
  • SteelTallon, on 04/11/2008, -0/+3I wish I could breathe through my skin! Stupid lungs!! I'm asthmatic....
  • 4d669, on 04/11/2008, -0/+3That's what mayans said when they started exploring how rain worked. The whole 'it's too complicated, therefore god' ***** is a thing of primitive beings and has nothing to do with civilized humans.
  • JoeDirrt, on 04/11/2008, -0/+3wow... terribly comment =)
  • CaptainM4d, on 04/11/2008, -1/+4You watch too much Pokemon.

    APE IS EVOLVING INTO....HUMAN!
  • Coded1, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2I'd hit it.
  • yossarian24, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2touche sir... I was trying to think back to my AP biology class... obviously the lung/skin preference would change from species to species based on its habitat... also if I remember right the "lungs" aren't really lungs in that there is no diaphragm involved... they just kind of expand their chest, swallow air, and force it in, I'm not sure I don't remember
  • SteelTallon, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2Sure, as much as the next guy does!!
  • madwh, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2kill it with fire!!!
  • d0onut, on 04/11/2008, -1/+3I'm not exactly a frog expert.
  • nomadofthehills, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2No, evolution IS change.
  • johnnysaucepn, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2It's also a nail in the coffin of the 'irreducible complexity' concept - the thought that once something works as a whole, removing one element would cause that whole to fail. The amphibians you speak of are examples of how atrophied lungs are still possible, and this particular frog is an example of how they can be removed completely.
  • OaklandNative, on 04/11/2008, -0/+2And how was god created? Did a more powerful god create god? Did an even more powerful god create the more powerful god that created god?
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