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Joan Waldron (waldrojo@ns.sympatico.ca) thought you would be interested in the following article from globeandmail.com, Canada's leading source for online news: "An amphibious assault" The first images that come to mind may be unassuming brown newts or garden-variety green frogs, but amphibians cover a much grander spectrum.Among about 6,000 species of frogs, salamanders and caecilians (legless animals, pronounced like ''Sicilians'') are some of the world's most bizarre animals: Giant Chinese salamanders, two metres in length; the ''hairy frog'' of Cameroon, which not only looks like it sports hair, but also can break its own bones to grow claws (an ability discovered just last month); the Surinam toad, which carries its eggs embedded in its back; and, even more macabre, the Sagalla caecilian, which feeds its own skin to its young. <http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080614.FROGS14/EmailTPStory/Science> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Get the news delivered to your inbox. Sign up for our daily News Update: <http://www.globeandmail.com/newsletter/>
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