Purple frog delights scientists

[astro]

[Purple frog delights scientists -

It has to be one of the strangest looking frogs ever discovered.](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3200214.stm)

The chubby, seven-centimetre-long, purple amphibian with a pointy snout was found hopping around in the Western Ghats, a range of hills in western India.

Scientists have given it the name Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis, from the Sanskrit word for nose (nasika); batrachus, meaning frog; and Sahyadri, the name for its mountain home.

Its head appears too small for its body and it looks more like a squat, grumpy blob than a living creature.

But to the scientists who describe it in the journal Nature, the frog is a beautiful find because of what it tells them about Earth history.

[Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew]

I like the lead sentence in the Times of India’s article on the little guy:

The discovery of a unique, frog-like creature in India’s Western Ghats is making biologists go “well well well.”

[Forbin]

Everybody do the Michigan rag.
Everybody do the Michigan rag.

[quiltguy154]

Any relation to the “Vatican Rag?” And NO, not L’Osservatore Romano.