Frogs are
any members of the Anura order, which consists of a diverse and largely
carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians. The first
"proto-frog" fossils were discovered in Madagascar in the early
Triassic era while molecular clock dating indicates they may have existed as
far back as the Permian, 265 million years ago. Frogs may be found all over the
planet from the tropics to the subarctic with tropical rainforests having the
greatest diversity of species. One amazing frog, in particular, is now
circulating the internet and many people aren't sure what to make of it.
This #frog is doing the rounds on social media. It’s a Blunt-headed Burrowing Frog (Glyphoglossus molossus). Native to drier parts of mainland SE Asia, this species spends most of its life underground, waiting for rain- they’ve a great shape for burrowing & conserving water. https://t.co/oic1ymL5MX
— Jodi Rowley (@jodirowley) January 7, 2021
Earlier
this month, a Twitter user shared
images of a "unique creature" with an unusually round, blob-like body
and an appropriately expressive face. It has now been retweeted, liked, and
shared hundreds of times, eliciting a wide range of emotions. The most popular
one though, has been to wonder what it is
truly.
Many have
speculated that it is a
shell less turtle while others have joked that it is Jabba the Hutt's
evolutionary progenitor. However, Jodi Rowley, a Twitter user, a
“conservation biologist crazy with frogs,” took to clear the air. She verified
that the bulbous creature is a frog called the Blunt-headed Burrowing Frog or
Glyphoglossus molossus. And the reason it's so big and puffy is that it's
inflating itself with air in self-defense, giving it the appearance of being
enormous and frightening.
Still,
others are skeptical disputing the existence of such "monster" at
all. With an estimated 8.7 million plant and animal species on the planet—and
just a small proportion of those discovered and classified thus far—almost
anything is imaginable.
This
incredible frog is so large that it has perplexed the whole Twitter community!
Many others questioned its very existence.
However,
one eyewitness recognized it as a Blunt-headed Burrowing Frog blowing itself up
for safety.
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