How flick knife thumbs help Japan's rare fighting frogs
Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 13:31
in Biology & Nature
Combat-ready spikes which shoot from fingers sounds like the weaponry of a comic book hero, but a Japanese scientist has found exactly this in a rare breed of frog. The discovery reveals how the Otton frog uses spikes which protrude from a false thumb for both combat and mating.