Bizarre Beasts Pin - Australian Ground Frogs

The Australian Ground Frogs in the family Myobatrachidae reproduce in incredibly weird ways. First, the Turtle Frog doesn’t have tadpoles. Its babies develop straight from egg to frog, skipping a free-living, swimming stage. Second, males of the Pouched Frog carry their tadpoles around in little pockets on their hips until they metamorphose into froglets.  And third, the females of the two extinct species of Gastric Brooding Frogs literally swallowed their eggs, turned off their stomach acid somehow, and grew their tadpoles in their stomachs. They didn’t eat for the whole six weeks that this took place and after the tadpoles had metamorphosed, the mother frogs vomited them up as froglets.

DETAILS

• Dimensions: 1.25" long (3.175cm)
• Double-pin posts and butterfly clasp
• Designed by by Greer Stothers. You can find out more about them and their work here!
• Some very lucky recipients might receive an Uncommon or Rare variant of this pin.