Date: 5/05/2020 12:29:36
From: Arts
ID: 1551330
Subject: Don't let frogs lick you either

The smart ones here know that one of my favourite things to say is “don’t lick frogs” as a general rule, it’s a terrible idea.

But now you probably shouldn’t let a couple of frogs near enough to lick you either…

introducing the worlds first venomous frog (that we know of)..

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/08/amid-agony-scientists-discover-world-s-first-venomous-frog?fbclid=IwAR3xuCn66EpB-tjLZy8LPjxEy6DefcMX55nUQV7pJcFn5P56Qyxdm0wLeZ4

Brazilian biologists have discovered the world’s first venomous frog the hard way. When Carlos Jared of the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, picked up a Brazilian hylid frog (Corythomantis greening, pictured)—a small, lumpy, green amphibian—while doing fieldwork in a jungle in the Goytacazes National Forest near the southwest coast of Brazil, the frog raked the spines hidden within its upper lip across his hand. He dropped the frog, and excruciating pain shot up his arm for the next 5 hours. Several other species of frogs are poisonous, but until now none have been shown to be venomous—that is injecting a toxin into their host. C. greening’s venom is twice as potent as that of the deadly pit viper, the researchers report online today in Current Biology.

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Date: 5/05/2020 12:43:02
From: Michael V
ID: 1551334
Subject: re: Don't let frogs lick you either

Arts said:


The smart ones here know that one of my favourite things to say is “don’t lick frogs” as a general rule, it’s a terrible idea.

But now you probably shouldn’t let a couple of frogs near enough to lick you either…

introducing the worlds first venomous frog (that we know of)..

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/08/amid-agony-scientists-discover-world-s-first-venomous-frog?fbclid=IwAR3xuCn66EpB-tjLZy8LPjxEy6DefcMX55nUQV7pJcFn5P56Qyxdm0wLeZ4

Brazilian biologists have discovered the world’s first venomous frog the hard way. When Carlos Jared of the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, picked up a Brazilian hylid frog (Corythomantis greening, pictured)—a small, lumpy, green amphibian—while doing fieldwork in a jungle in the Goytacazes National Forest near the southwest coast of Brazil, the frog raked the spines hidden within its upper lip across his hand. He dropped the frog, and excruciating pain shot up his arm for the next 5 hours. Several other species of frogs are poisonous, but until now none have been shown to be venomous—that is injecting a toxin into their host. C. greening’s venom is twice as potent as that of the deadly pit viper, the researchers report online today in Current Biology.


Ouch!

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Date: 5/05/2020 12:46:15
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1551336
Subject: re: Don't let frogs lick you either

Michael V said:


Arts said:

The smart ones here know that one of my favourite things to say is “don’t lick frogs” as a general rule, it’s a terrible idea.

But now you probably shouldn’t let a couple of frogs near enough to lick you either…

introducing the worlds first venomous frog (that we know of)..

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/08/amid-agony-scientists-discover-world-s-first-venomous-frog?fbclid=IwAR3xuCn66EpB-tjLZy8LPjxEy6DefcMX55nUQV7pJcFn5P56Qyxdm0wLeZ4

Brazilian biologists have discovered the world’s first venomous frog the hard way. When Carlos Jared of the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, picked up a Brazilian hylid frog (Corythomantis greening, pictured)—a small, lumpy, green amphibian—while doing fieldwork in a jungle in the Goytacazes National Forest near the southwest coast of Brazil, the frog raked the spines hidden within its upper lip across his hand. He dropped the frog, and excruciating pain shot up his arm for the next 5 hours. Several other species of frogs are poisonous, but until now none have been shown to be venomous—that is injecting a toxin into their host. C. greening’s venom is twice as potent as that of the deadly pit viper, the researchers report online today in Current Biology.


Ouch!

OMG. Good one.

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Date: 5/05/2020 13:21:49
From: Tamb
ID: 1551354
Subject: re: Don't let frogs lick you either

Michael V said:


Arts said:

The smart ones here know that one of my favourite things to say is “don’t lick frogs” as a general rule, it’s a terrible idea.

But now you probably shouldn’t let a couple of frogs near enough to lick you either…

introducing the worlds first venomous frog (that we know of)..

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/08/amid-agony-scientists-discover-world-s-first-venomous-frog?fbclid=IwAR3xuCn66EpB-tjLZy8LPjxEy6DefcMX55nUQV7pJcFn5P56Qyxdm0wLeZ4

Brazilian biologists have discovered the world’s first venomous frog the hard way. When Carlos Jared of the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, picked up a Brazilian hylid frog (Corythomantis greening, pictured)—a small, lumpy, green amphibian—while doing fieldwork in a jungle in the Goytacazes National Forest near the southwest coast of Brazil, the frog raked the spines hidden within its upper lip across his hand. He dropped the frog, and excruciating pain shot up his arm for the next 5 hours. Several other species of frogs are poisonous, but until now none have been shown to be venomous—that is injecting a toxin into their host. C. greening’s venom is twice as potent as that of the deadly pit viper, the researchers report online today in Current Biology.


Ouch!


A new venomous creature & it’s not in Australia. I’m disappointed.

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