So let’s get this straight– while greedy palm oil corporations are cutting down the forest faster than ever, scientists are still discovering new species of frogs in that same forest…. discoveries which will provide breakthroughs in our understanding of the complexities of life on earth…
The priorities seem to be a bit messed up here– dead orangutans and cheap cookies & soap… or healthy orangutans, intact forests and new scientific discoveries… kind of a no-brainer… so why aren’t the palm oil companies being stopped?????? Come on people, we need to get our act together and stop the madness…! ~ Rich

By Charles Q. Choi

The first lungless frog has been discovered lurking in the jungles of Borneo.

The enigmatic amphibian, dubbed Barbourula kalimantanensis, apparently gets all the oxygen it needs through its skin.

Scientists first saw one of these frogs 30 years ago, but due to their rarity, just one other specimen had been collected since then and neither had been dissected.

Photo: David Bickford / LiveScience
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23996711/

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