Believe it or not- First Lungless Frog Discovered
posted in Animal Species |“First Lungless Frog Discovered”- you may not believe this news, but believe it or not, it’s true. Biologists have reported first case of complete lunglessness in a frog.
The strange amphibian named as “Barbourula kalimantanensis,” gets all the oxygen it needs through its skin. It is first ever recorded frog species that breathes without lungs in a clear cold water stream on the island of Borneo, Indonesia.
Lead author of the study, David Bickford, a biologist at the National University of Singapore reported that no one knew about this strange fact before they accidentally did a routine dissection.
Actually the species was long been discovered by researchers but scientists did not want to sacrifice the animals for dissection. But this time biologists dissected many frogs and found the mysterious frog.