Gasp! Scientists find first lung less frog

Researches working in Borneo have found the only lung less frog. In the national university of Singapore biologist David Bickford said that the frog has an amazing ability to breathe through it skin. The tiny frog measures 40mm and it weight 6.5 gram was found in western Kalimantan, Indonesia in August. The frog lives in clod, rushing water and is so rare that only two specimens had bin found previously. They don’t want to sacrifice the frogs that they find so Bickfrod’s team where the first to find out that the species was lung less. They didn’t use the traditional way of finding frogs Bickfrod said and they aren’t sure about seize of the population. They accidentally found it Bickfrod said in an e-mail to take some samples to do some DNA work with it. When they found the frog they all where septic about it bout when they found out they all where shocked. They looked at four of them and all four had know lungs. The frog gets all its air thought it skin and only amphibians are known to have know lungs.

Frogs may have lost lungs for survival

They say it adaptation to it environment because of where it lives it is hard to sink with lungs full of air. In cold water there is more air in the water then in warm water so that means that the frogs skin get more contact with the air in the water. It would have gotten swept away with lungs and cold blooded mammals don’t need so much oxygen. The finding clouds help to learn more about lung development and the genes that regulate tumour suppression. If it sill has the building blocks of organs then could find useful applications of the genes they could go under novel and unique mutation. Now it is guess work for them but it could work.

Frog’s future is ‘grim’

The illegal gold mining can kill them. It is interiorly our flout if we want to learn some thing from it we should help protect it. We know shockingly little about these animals.

What I like about this project:

That they found a new species of frogs and that it has know lungs. That it can brief thought it skin and that we can loran a lot from it because of its body built.

What I don’t like about this project:

Is that we are killing it by getting gold. That we don’t know much about them.