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Snopes says it’s “Mostly true” in that they don’t know the origins of the color photo but the black and white one is authentic: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/frog-eyes-inside-mouth/

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[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago

That seems... inconvenient.

[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

maybe their mouth is so open so often that this is more effective for them.

[-] PassingThrough@lemm.ee 37 points 3 months ago

Well that’s one way to watch what you eat.

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago
[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

I believe this frog likes see-food.

Ba dum cha!

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 17 points 3 months ago

frogs have the most fucked up mutations

[-] nialv7@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

Quoting the article:

Most anurans retract and close their eyes repeatedly during swallowing. Eye retraction may aid swallowing by helping to push food back toward the esophagus.

That's about normal frogs, not the mutated ones. They use their eye balls to push food down their throats.

What. the. fuck. What a terrible day to be literate.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago

My God. If wind hits my eyes it hurts. Can't imagine them hitting against a steak. And the jarring effect on vision. Why? Why do this?

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Amphibians are weird as hell, that's why.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

OP tried to clarify but seems didn't clarify enough: that's talking about normal frogs with normal eyes, they use the back side of the eyes to push down food, presumably it doesn't feel any worse for them than you poking the side of your eye through the eyelid.

[-] circledot@feddit.org 13 points 3 months ago

Intelligent design

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 12 points 3 months ago

the elder deep is leaking

[-] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago
[-] blargle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago
[-] Apeman42@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

This is what I opened the thread for.

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They're not even symmetrical, I don't even know whether to send this to my wife to make her laugh, or send it to my wife to freak her out

[-] lenuup@reddthat.com 8 points 3 months ago

That's actually great. Now it can watch what it eats.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

And this is how nature invented eyelids 😃

[-] kewjo@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

this would make an interesting sequel. I Have No Eyes and I must scream

[-] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Why did I have to see this right before bed

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

They must keep their mouths open more than normal frogs just so they can see. Poor creatures.

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

There's frogs

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