What’s a frog? Well, it’s not quite a fish, and it’s not quite a lizard, but put them together and you have a stout, slimy little pal that everyone can agree on! Especially Ceri! Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out SciShowTangents.org!
What’s a frog? Well, it’s not quite a fish, and it’s not quite a lizard, but put them together and you have a stout, slimy little pal that everyone can agree on! Especially Ceri!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links!
[Truth or Fail]
Glue
Image of crucifix frog: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holy_Cross_Frog.jpg
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-05473-z
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6492-frog-glue-repairs-damaged-cartilage/
Sand
Image of tadpoles: https://www.thehindu.com/migration_catalog/article14128847.ece/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1200/31th-frog2.jpg
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160330-these-newly-discovered-frogs-have-really-weird-tadpoles
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0151781
Suction
Image of paradox frog tadpole: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NHM_London_Paradoxical_frog_(Pseudis_paradoxa)_model.jpg
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/31509/what-big-baby-life-and-times-paradox-frog
https://www.mtpr.org/post/field-notes-tale-montanas-strangest-frog
[Fact Off]
Foam-nest frogs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D8b4e9nGwE
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0934
Frog cell robots
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200113175653.htm
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/4/1853
Video: https://movie-usa.glencoesoftware.com/video/10.1073/pnas.1910837117/video-1
[Ask the Science Couch]
Sticky frog tongues
https://theconversation.com/the-frog-tongue-is-a-high-speed-adhesive-72064
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2016.0764
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/watch-frog-s-tongue-ultrasoft-shock-absorber
[Butt One More Thing]
Frog skin buttock graft
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2355278/?page=1
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