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BBC Earth Thursday, Aug. 06, 2015
This Venomous Frog has Killer Spines on its Head
When Carlos Jared picked up a little frog hiding in the scrublands of the Brazilian Caatinga, he didn’t expect to be hurt. ... Now he understands why. The little frog he collected is known as a Greening's Frog. Its head is covered in deadly spines, and Jared’s research has revealed it is capable of injecting its victims with toxins more potent than those produced by Brazilian pitviper snakes. ... “We do not know for sure, but because of the toxins we see, we strongly suspect the frogs produce their own toxin,” says Edmund Brodie, of Utah State University in the US, who led the research into the venomous frogs.