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Post by account_disabled on Nov 25, 2023 3:57:30 GMT
The article featured an image of Superman with the head of a toad. “Nightmare toads are already on our territory, and now they are evolving,” the newspaper wrote in a panic. Contrary to all Darwin's assumptions, it seemed that we were seeing evolution in real time. Agha toads are not only frighteningly large; from a human point of view, they are also ugly: they have bony heads and an evil grin on their muzzle. But what makes these amphibians truly "nightmarish" is that they are poisonous. If an adult aga toad is bitten or startled, it releases a milky-white mucus containing substances that stop the heart. Dogs often suffer from this poison, with symptoms ranging from frothing from the Phone Number List mouth to complete cardiac Previously, there were no poisonous toads in Australia; in fact, there were no toads at all. Therefore, the local fauna in the process of evolution has not learned to fear them. So the story of the aga toad is the story of the Asian carp in reverse. If carp are a problem in the United States because no one eats them, then toads are a threat in Australia because almost everyone eats them. The list of species that have declined due to eating toads is long and varied. It includes: Australian narrow-nosed crocodiles, argus monitor lizards, which grow up to one and a half meters in length; smooth lizards (blue-tongued skinks); water lizards that look like small dinosaurs; viper-like death snake, which, as the name suggests, is venomous; as well as the mulga.
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