Scientists Say Toads Can Predict Earthquakes

reillymj writes "Researchers claim toads sensed a severe earthquake last year five days before it hit. Last spring's L'Aquila earthquake devastated the medieval city of the same name in Italy. Five days earlier, a group of biologists noticed some toads behaving strangely in a pond nearby that would later be the quake's epicenter."

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[VisualD]

So all we need now is a way of measuring this reliably and we canALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD

Re:Pfft

[Jurily]

This should be an ad for a university.

"Study biology and you too can get excited watching frogs fuck!"

After the earthquake, they said...

[Anonymous Coward]

I toad you.

Excellent Technological Breakthrough

[Foobar of Borg]

Now that we have frogs to predict the earthquakes, we can more effectively employ sheep bladders to prevent them!