Three Headed Frog

An anonymous reader writes "Children in a nursery were shocked when they spotted a three-headed frog hopping in their garden."

OK, that's freaky

[dacarr]

I'm not exactly the squeamish type, but that kinda made me a bit queasy. Please be warned - this appears to be an odd fusion of three frogs.

really freaky...

[advocate_one]

watching on tv last night on the local section of the news...

It's not a hoax, there really are three heads and most of three bodies merged on that animal... but only two forelegs but I was unable to determine exactly how many rear legs there were... but then again frog's bums don't exactly appeal to me either...

Is this even real?

[jpsowin]

The photo is fake. The news article says that some people saw it but it got away. So they are merely going on what a few people said and now they are showing a fake frog picture to "prove" it. They're currently "looking" for the frog that was spoken of.

Fishy?

Frog Just Doing What Comes Naturally

[cmjensen]

That's not a mutant frog. That's frog porn.

Doesn't anybody remember this [meepzorp.com] hoax which turned out [frogs.org] to be pretty much the same thing? Here [livejournal.com] is a good discussion of the issue

More Pictures!

[dnahelix]

This is truly freaky!

More Pictures Here. [local6.com]

Re:Lake District

[Captain Pedantic]

No, it is in the south west, 10 miles away from Hinkley Point [llrc.org] (A nuclear power plant).

Re:Canaries in the coal mine baby!

[Hadean]

Yes, the environment is indeed self-purifying, I never said it wasn't, but just not fast enough to account for the amount of toxins that released. Actually, I should have been more specific - there are two kinds of toxins, some cumulative, some not.

A simple Google search came up with a ton of pages supporting this, like this one [sunysb.edu] should that shows the accumulation of toxins in marine biology ("Non-cumulative toxins do not increase in concentration in the body, even if the organism is chronically exposed to the toxin. Conversely, cumulative toxins, tend to increase in concentration, and are often associated with a specific tissue, e.g., cadmium tends to increase over time in the digestive gland of blue crabs."). this link [nutramed.com], this link [cornell.edu] and this one [herc.org] also talk about the cumulative nature of pollution. etc.etc.

So where are your links?

I agree that a single mutated frog isn't PROOF that pollution is involved, that mutations will occur to surrounding mammals, whatever, BUT it should at least make you stop and think for a second, asks questions, etc., instead of just shrug and ignore it completely - which is what I was getting at.

Sadly, you're just as bad as those environmentalists you attack... ignoring everybody else.