Gothamist: Eyeless Frogs, Two-Headed Turtles

MIKE

Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:43:52 -0500

u stink at writing information

keeley

Fri, 19 Sep 2003 06:18:30 -0500

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Miss Mousey's Husband

Wed, 23 Jul 2003 10:13:09 -0500

One jump ahead of you there, Rob.

Sterling

Tue, 22 Jul 2003 20:24:11 -0500

"increased levels of UV radiation" - sounds like we need to come up with some froggy sunblock.

Justin Case, Gothamist Science Correspondant

Tue, 22 Jul 2003 19:27:39 -0500

Two headed reptiles, while not exactly common, are nothing to get too worked up about. Two headed snakes turn up in the news every couple of years. They're more or less analagous to conjoined twins in humans. As for the frogs with extra legs, this is an ongoing problem. The latest thinking is that a parasite is responsible. However, increased levels of UV radiation reaching ground level as a result of human activity are suspected of lowering the frogs' resistance to disease. Declining amphibian populations are an issue all over the world, and no one has yet come up with a definite cause.

Sterling

Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:28:30 -0500

Rensselaer County has a lot of rust belt development along the Hudson (as does Albany, on the other side), but is mostly farmland and forest when you get inland a mile or two. Raymertown (where this happened) is definitely outside the industrial area.

erikka

Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:38:06 -0500

This isn't the first incident of mutations--back in the mid-ninties, 1996 I believe, there were several cases of frogs growing extra limbs and other mutations in WI.