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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 43 points 1 week ago

That seems... inconvenient.

[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] PassingThrough@lemm.ee 33 points 1 week ago

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

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago
[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

I believe this frog likes see-food.

Ba dum cha!

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago

frogs have the most fucked up mutations

[-] circledot@feddit.org 13 points 1 week ago

Intelligent design

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 11 points 1 week ago

the elder deep is leaking

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

And this is how nature invented eyelids 😃

[-] lenuup@reddthat.com 7 points 1 week ago

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

[-] nialv7@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week 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.

[-] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Why did I have to see this right before bed

[-] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago
[-] kewjo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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

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