Frogs (and all amphibians) tend to very sensitive to any kind of water pollution. Similar things are turning up in the States and evironmentalists in concert with scientists are trying to figure out what the pollution could be and where it's coming from. I forget which chemical can cause such drastic genetic abnormalities. It's been a long time since I read about this.
Reported in the UK "The Sun" as a "snippet" (no refs given). As reported:
3-headed frog shock: A mutant frog with three heads and six legs, terrified children when it turned up at their nursery.
The croaking three-inch creature was trapped in a bucket by 24-year-old nursery manager Rebecca Twinn. She said: "It was horrible."
Frog expert Marie Orchard said: "I think it is very unusual."
The frog may have come from a pond at the nursery in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.
"Unusual"? I should say so. The strange thing that I don't understand is why so many of these "growth peculiarities"(?) seem to manifest in amphibians.
The answer can't be 42 every time...
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