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RE: New 'frog-amander' (today's Nature)

>>Describes the new stem-batrachian _Gerobatrachus hottoni_ gen. et
>sp. nov.

_Gerobatrachus_ supposedly from the Greek _geros_, old. But in a nice
piece of synchronicity, "Gero" is the Japanese rendering of the noise
a frog makes. The parrots may not be telling us where they came from,
but it looks like the frogs might be - unless, of course, it's all an
anuran conspiracy to mislead us.

    Cheers,

        Christopher Taylor

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