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How crows triggered a bizarre exploding toad epidemic

In the spring of 2005, common toads in Germany and Denmark began dying in a violent and highly unusual way. Witnesses ...
Houston Chronicle

Exploding toads — victims of an amphibious attack?

BERLIN - What's making toads puff up and explode in northern Europe? More than 1,000 toad corpses have been found at a pond in an upscale neighborhood in Hamburg and over the border in Denmark after ...
The Washington Post

Exploding German Toads Baffle Scientists

BERLIN, April 28 -- More than 1,000 toads have puffed up and exploded in a Hamburg pond in recent weeks, and German scientists have no explanation for it. The pond water has been tested, but its ...
The New York Times

ASSERT 'GLACIAL' TOAD IS ONLY 2 YEARS OLD; Washington Experts Explode the Myth of Reptile Having Lived 300,000 Years.

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