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Big Ben the Axolotl
We get a lot of requests to feature friends pets on Zooillogix. Some people just don’t seem to get the fact that their golden retriever does not belong on a site devoted to bizarre zoology (you know...
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It’s a Fish-Eat-Giant Salamander-Eat-Shark World
Reported last month in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a fascinating fossil was discovered in the Saar-Nahe Basin of Southwestern Germany (sounds more like somewhere in Middle-earth...
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Weird Amphibians Make Some Sort of Conservation List
We know this story has been covered by everyone from LiveScience to Perez Hilton, but we thought we’d do our part as well to promote awareness. Chinese giant salamander….very tasty. An initiative known...
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Enormous ‘Devil Toad’ Remains Discovered in Madagascar
Scientists in Madagascar recently discovered the remains of a giant prehistoric frog, a relative of today’s horned toads, which blew away the previous record for the largest known frog, Bennicus...
View ArticleSurinam Toads Perfect Birthing Method to Destroy Humanity
Adorable! Surinam toads of the family Pipidae have a broad, flat shape and leaf-like appearance, but who cares about that…? They embed fertilized eggs in the mother’s back from whence the babies...
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African Frogs Break Own Bones to Form Claws
A study of rare African frogs has revealed a form of self-defense hitherto unbeknownst to the scientific world: claws of pure bone that burst through the frogs’ skin. And it gets worse. When the frogs...
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Lady, the Toad Sucking Cocker Spaniel
“Toad licking” has been well documented around the world with secretions from many species causing intense hallucinations. In this 2006 NPR podcast, they tell the story of a poor cocker spaniel who...
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Not Dead Animals – Weekly Recap
A quick wrap-up of the animals discovered not to be extinct this week: Armoured mistfrog This Armoured Mistfrog, thought by many experts to be extinct due to the recent amphibian chytrid fungus...
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10 New Amphibians Discovered
Researchers in a remote Colombian jungle have identified 10 new species of amphibian. Keeping with Zooillogix’s official policy, because the creatures are finally known to Western science, now and only...
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Our New Meat Ant Overlords…
In the 1930s, Australian ecologists shortsightedly introduced the Cane Toad, a species indigenous to South America, to their isolated continent to eat agricultural pests. This famously proved to be a...
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