Frogs found whose toes morph into claws
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 15:21
in Biology & Nature
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 25 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have found 11 African frog species whose toes can morph into claws -- the only vertebrate claws known to pierce their way to functionality.
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