Four mutant frogs with gold skin and red eyes, found by children in a grassy field in the town of Shimanto in Kochi prefecture, have gone on display at the nearby Shimanto River Gakuyukan science center. According to a center spokesperson who says the golden specimens are highly unusual, the 2.4-centimeter (almost 1-inch) amphibians appear to be black-spotted pond frogs (Pelophylax nigromaculata, a.k.a. Rana nigromaculata) whose skin turned gold because of an albino mutation that prevents the formation of pigment cells. With a run of bad luck that has brought shrinking visitor numbers and a recent theft of 1.25 million yen (about $10,000), the center hopes the golden frogs are a sign of good fortune to come. Oddly, they look sort of like feng shui money frogs (Chan Chu), except that money frogs have three legs.
[Source: Asahi]
mary poppins
hmmm yes i agree
[]Charne
Are the frogs real? And if they are where could someone probably find these frogs? I like them bcause they are different from other frogs.
[]Bibliophile
... di you even read the article? All your answers can be found by reading that little paragraph up there.
[]Keith Forest Brown
I think the paragraph was a little too long for Charne to read.
[]Arthur
or maybe charne is simply not as egg-headed and pretentious as you lot :/
[]find me b*tch
or maybe they just couldnt fu*king read. i dont know how the ability for people to read a one paragraph article makes some one eggheaded OR pretentious, maybe you are just as stupid as charne, arthur. dont be a douche.
sage
READ IT
[]Arthur
they're mutants; first of their kind. those four you see are the only ones
[]Ben
Woah! Those frogs look pretty cool. If they were in the hands of a professional breeder, there could be more of these highly rare gold frogs, since albinism is a recourring trait in genes.
[]At any rate, these frogs are pretty cool.
sam
omg those frogs are so cute.
[]matt
cool man those frogs are wicked sweet dont kill them or i will kill you
[]kiki
kool frogs
[]r they really good luck
Scientist jk
Those frogs are sweet they need to be breeded
[]Ben
i look for frogs and i found a three legged frog but i want those ones cos there so cute
[]jess
cool website!
[]Beatriz
These frogs r sick and look gros
[]NESSA
I DONT KNOW IF THESE FROGS ARE GOOD LUCK B CAUSE I NEVER SAW ONE
[]kin37ik
highly unusualy for frogs to have the albino genes, expecially these ones, quite interesting
[]monica
wow. there the prince of all frogs
[]espy
i like frogs very much they are very lucky !
[]espy
how abt green colour frogs ? are they lucky or bad luck :(
[]Ashley
Is everyone who posts here illiterate!?
[]Beelzebub
I was wondering the same thing - does looking at golden frogs make you stupid??
[]Shoopd
Well, I'll back you two up on that. What the crap internet? Y U SO STUPID?
[]Keith Forest Brown
Or at least have not finished the 3rd grade...
[]iprintem
I think they look like dill pickles, but who am I to say so? and Ashley, yes, I think everyone who has posted on here are illiterate. Apparently a couple of them didn't read the accompanying story before they posted.
[]hahaha
hahahah I was thinking the exact same thing! Idiots.
[]Sage
Clearly, the solution is to turn these into fortune-bringing golden money frogs by chopping off the superfluous limb!
[]c1f3r
clearly this is an omen of good fortune. and has nothing to do with nuclear reactors going berserk over at fukushima. seriously. like. they aren't even near to each other.
[]now move along! nothing to see here.
God
LOL OMG it's the flibbits from Banjo-Kazooie!
[]Banjo Fillanjo
They sure do look tasty.
[]zaam
They probably piss real gold.
[]J. Anthony Carter
I want to know how come the kids who found the frogs aren't the recipients of any windfall that may come about as a result of the DISCOVERY of this rare and important species? Who took the frogs away from the children and what do they plan to do with them? Have they asked the children who discovered them what they wanted done and have they even asked the children's permission to keep the frogs?
[]God I hate thieves and lawyers!!
anon
Nononono. You've got it all backwards. It's supposed to be mutant TURTLES. Turtles people.
God, you never get anything right.
[]Jessica
can I eat these frogs?
[]Evangilene
That's Lovely. :O
[]Marlene
huh why are they gold awesome i think ill go try to find some,, do they come from the south?
[]mischievousecho
Albino frogs.
THE ENDETH COMETH
Hide yo' wife, Hide yo' kids
[]Adniram
hope they are not the only one of their kind
[]Sean
They look like albino Golden Bell Tree Frogs, of which I own several.
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