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Star-fingered toads use fingertip lobules to detect prey in murky water

Star-fingered toads use fingertip lobules to detect prey in murky waterWorldPing

Surinam toads (Pipa pipa) are strange, flat frogs with minuscule eyes that live in the murky waters of the Amazon basin and carry their eggs on their backs. The way they catch prey is even weirder.

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