Researchers from the National University of Singapore working in Indonesia have found a frog species without lungs that breathes through its skin. Only a few species of salamander are known to share this trait.
The scientists believe this adaptation came about because of the frog’s environment. It lives in fast-moving streams, and air-filled lungs would make it float and get swept away by the current.
(Source: Associated Press)
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