Frog Tees

Today, 29 February, is Leap Day or International Day of the Frog - the official launch date for the Year of the Frog.

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I aint kissing this Frog!

Originally uploaded by indigo_girl

The Internet is buzzing with news of an important 70 million year-old fossil find in Madagascar, already nicknamed Beelzebufo…the frog from hell! This huge prehistoric frog was longer than a rugby ball and weighed in at around four kilos and quite possibly snacked on baby dinosaurs!

Check out the NYTimes article:

Science
Paleontologists Reconstruct a Monster Frog
By KENNETH CHANG
Published: February 19, 2008
Beelzebufo may be the largest frog that ever lived, weighing more than 10 pounds.

There was some amazing footage on the Science and Nature pages of BBC News yesterday showing the rare Panamanian golden frog waving, wrestling and courting for the first time. In fact, shortly after recording the footage for the BBC One series Life In Cold Blood (which is presented by Sir David Attenborough), the frogs had to be rescued from the wild, due to the threat of chytrid fungus - the whole species is now extinct in Panama and this recording shows their unusual behaviour for both the first and last time in their natural habitat.