I will, at some stage, stop posting about tiny critters. But not today. No, today we’re looking at this itty-bitty frog species, Amauensis, a part of the newly described genus Paedophryne. The average body size of the species is 7.7mm, which is about 60 per cent smaller than a five-cent coin. More »
This minute fellow — the one being dwarfed by a dime — just earned the distinction for not only being the smallest known frog species but also the smallest known species of vertebrate. More »
Screw ghost riding the whip, forget flash mobs. There’s a new internet craze threatening our children: taunting lizards and amphibians with fake food on your smartphone. Sure it’s cute when they’re crushing virtual insects but it’s not so cute when they attack your finger. More »
First, the otters learned to use camcorders. Today, Cuban Tree Frogs are glowing like E.T. in the muggy swamplands of Southern Florida. And yes, this is a real, live froggy, not some lame USB dongle.
PopSci got their hands on this 2.5-ton home-built frogtruck, a 260-horsepower treaded monster which is the first-ever amphibious vehicle that can fully retract its drive assembly. The path for the perfect amphibian truck was as hard as the ones this thing can now travel through at 50kph: the mud flats, bogs, ice fields, snow slopes, rivers and lakes of the Alaskan tundra.
newVideoPlayer("robotfrog_gawker.flv", 475, 376); No no no! The deal was to make robots clumsily—and harmlessly—lumber along like the Honda Asimo, not spry and limber like this Japanese jumping frog robot. Mowgli, or as we call him, Death Jumper-kun, can hop about 50 cm into the air, effectively putting them at slightly under crotch height. Its creators at University of Tokyo, also known as Todai (which means atrocities against humanity), also programmed it to kick a soccer ball and leap down again from the chair. We better stop these maniacs now before one of them gets the bright idea to strap some saw blades to its feet. [Crazy U via Tech.co.uk via The Raw Feed] More »
Art or science? That’s the question you’ll be asking yourself when you see this dead frog with a server embedded into its guts. Suspended in a clear glass of inert liquid, the frog has an Ethernet cable coming out of its insides, which in turn allows remote “visitors” to issue commands and make the frog twitch its muscles. It’s definitely the most sadistic thing we’ve seen done to a frog since that Miss Piggy’s S&M video. [Conceptlab via BoingBoing] More »
