Ballad of a sort-of frog

If this Purple Frog doesn't look very frog-like, he apologizes. It's just that the last time he shared an ancestor with the rest of frog-kind was back on the supercontinent of Gondwana.

For more weird animals, check out Brandon Keim's slideshow of 11 Animal Wonders of Evolution.

Via Noah Grey

Maggie Koerth-Baker is the science editor at BoingBoing.net. She writes a monthly column for The New York Times Magazine and is the author of Before the Lights Go Out, a book about electricity, infrastructure, and the future of energy. You can find Maggie on Twitter and Facebook.

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Calimecita:

that frog looks like it will turn into friggin’ Dracula if you kiss it. I mean, if you are into that sort of thing more power to you and all… just sayin’

-G.
Calimecita

Thanks for the great link, Maggie! I should check Wired Science more often.
And I definitely want to kiss that frog!
arocklegend

If it wasn’t already around, I would definitely have invented the internet just so Maggie could have a place for her posts.