Daffodil Lane

Sorry to burst your bubble, but frogs do have lungs. True they do breathe through their skin, especially when submerged, but they have lung lobes (yes they're lungs) still.

The article clearly states that this species of frogs does NOT have lungs. Most frogs do yes, but not the Jabba frog.

The explaination for this animal's lack of lungs is absolutly absurd...facsinating, but absurd!

To begin with, it seems that this frog's trait is evolutionary speaking, better than lungs! yet, here's what the "experts" say: "These are about the most ancient and bizarre frogs you can get on the planet". according to the very nature of evolutionary theory, this is stupid and backwards.

The most rediculous part of this is the reasoning: "It's an extreme adaptation that was probably brought about by these fast-moving streams," Bickford said, adding that it probably needed to reduce its buoyancy in order to keep from being swept down the mountainous rivers.

Well, I suppose that over the millions of years that these streams (have not only existed, but) picked up their current, this particular frog just happened develop the ability to breathe through its skin, over millions of years, at the same pace.

I suppose every new and unheard of discovery needs to be questioned and its origion theorized, but the fact that this drivel is being published and spread around in this manner is just silly (for lack of a better word that wasn't an explative).

Its a good thing that the human mind hasn't evolved enough to question this school of scientific evaluation, otherwise one might be annoyed.

The fact that these irresponsible "guesses" will likely wind up in our children's text books is what has me fuming. Compared to this explaination, I'm more inclined to believe that God made this frog. Come on people...our species may not have been around as long as this frog's, but surely we can do better than this!

(by the way, I do happen to think this is a really cool discovery!)

Sadly public school science education is greatly lacking to begin with. It degrades every year.