Life imitates Art: X-men edition

A group of African frogs have picked up a trick or two from reading x-men comics - these Wolverine-like frogs have claws that must pierce through the skin on their toes in order to be deployed when threatened. Makes you wonder what other kinds of mutant powers frogs have picked up from comic books - perhaps a frog that can stop a speeding locomotive? Or maybe a mind-reading frog that shoots lasers from its eyes and can call upon weather phenomena to defeat its predators.

Other things that have been killed off...

The Panamanian golden frog population was wiped out in 2006 by a fungal infection. But not before the BBC shot footage for a series called Life in Cold Blood. The video shows the frog's unique communication technique using semaphore or waving rather than the typical croaking.

Year of the Frog

"The Association of Zoos and Aquariums will highlight 2008 as the Year of the Frog to mark a major conservation effort to address the amphibian extinction crisis."