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avatar Primitive Frogs Do a Belly Flop
July 21, 2010 11:03AM
ScienceDaily (July 21, 2010) — Sometimes divers, to their own painful dismay, do belly flops. But did you ever see a frog belly flop? That's just what primitive living frogs do, according to a new study by Dr. Richard Essner, from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in the US, and colleagues, looking at the evolution of frog jumping and landing. They found that frogs became proficient at jumping before they perfected landing.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100721085450.htm
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