ZOOLOGY IS THE BEST SCIENCE. ESPECIALLY AMPHIBIANS. WE SHOULD ALL SUPPORT AND OBEY AMPHIBIANS.
Anyone out there in BALand know what kind of toad frog this is for realz? Very cool. Update: It’s an Amazon Horned Frog. Thanks to commenter Charles (#4 below)!
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September 19th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Looks like my first wife’s mother
September 19th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Hey, it’s the – ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD
September 19th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Wow, thats….thats just weird haha, i wonder if any of the animators or writers for Futurama ever saw one of these little buggers
September 19th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
It should be the Surinam horned frog:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratophrys_cornuta
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD
September 19th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
I believe that is an Amazon Horned Frog.
September 19th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
It’s an Amazon Horned Frog.
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/amphibians/amazon-horned-frog.html
September 19th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
@Charles
Looks like it.
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/wallpaper/amazon-horned-frog_image.html
September 19th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
It’s a baby picture of the younger sister of the Gungan general!
September 19th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Thats not the hyp – ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD
September 19th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Yes, it’s the Amazon or South American horned frog, Ceratophrys, which is a genus of frogs in the family Leptodactylidae, subfamily Ceratophryinae.
September 19th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
El hipnosapo en la vida real…
La zoología es la mejor ciencia. Especialmente los anfibios. Todos deberíamos apoyar y obedecer a los anfibios….
September 19th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
It’s a modified version of this picture.
September 19th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
*monotone clap*
September 19th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
And the winner is!
The Hypnotoad
*CLAP*…*CLAP*
September 19th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Cm’on, it’s obviously an infant Hynerian.
September 19th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
You feeling ok there Phil?
Cool frog.
September 19th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Well, it’s obviously a relative of Dominar Rygel XVI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/farscape/gallery/images/340/rygel_s3.jpg
September 19th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Mary’s monday metazoan!
Erm, which blog is this?
September 19th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
I wonder if this could be a tatoo…..
September 19th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
“ZOOLOGY IS THE BEST SCIENCE”? Wow, Phil, Hypnotoad has really left his mark on you….
September 19th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Hee. It looks like a cross between Hypnotoad and Lrrr.
September 19th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
“ZOOLOGY IS THE BEST SCIENCE”
Is Hypnotoad in cahoots with PZ Myers?
September 19th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
WE SHOULD SEND ALL OUR MONEY TO THE AMAZONIAN ZOOLOGICAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY, THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BATRACIANS, THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOUTH AMERICAN FAUNA, THE FROG LOVERS GROUP…. ALL HAIL THE HYPNOTOAD…
(After 20 years on the internet, I think it’s the first time I write something all in uppercase… gah)
September 19th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Well now, doesn’t he look all smug.
September 19th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Actually, frogs and salamanders are extremely important creatures to study. Because of their porous skin, they soak up whatever toxins are in their environment and thus are extremely susceptible to mutation and disease. The health of an ecosystem’s amphibians telegraphs the health of the ecosystem itself.
That, and…OBEY THE HYPNOTOAD….
September 19th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
While we’re on memes…. forgive me Phil.
September 19th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
@ 26 Kevin F.
Did you make that or find that? Cause that is awesome..
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD
(I seriously think Phil should end every blog entry with that sentence now)
September 19th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
I take full responsibility.
September 19th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
@ Kevin F, awesomeness, but not as awesome as THE GLORY THAT IS HYPNOTOAD!!!!
September 19th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
The Toad King!
September 19th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
hyyyypnoooo
September 19th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
m,m,
September 19th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
[...] el gran hipnosapo guie nuestros pasos http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/09/19/hypnotoad-irl/ [...]
September 19th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!
September 19th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Why are the eye lids colored in your pic while in the original they are grey
September 19th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
The photo is obviously photosh ALL HAIL THE HYPNOTOAD!
September 19th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
[...] » noticia original [...]
September 19th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
THE HYPNOTOAD IS THE KING!
September 19th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
@Kevin F: HAHAHAH…..HA….H…
…ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!
September 19th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
I, for one, welcome our new amphibian overlord.
September 19th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Alabado sea el Supremo Batracio!!!.
Hipnotoad FTW!!!
September 19th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Has PZ Myers bee ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD
September 20th, 2009 at 12:09 am
Looks like something out of an H.P Lovecraft story…or a bad trip.
September 20th, 2009 at 3:14 am
I too say it looks more like Rygel XVI. Tgough heck yeah, I’d never though I’d say “thats a awesome looking frog”
September 20th, 2009 at 3:23 am
[...] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/09/19/hypnotoad-irl/ a few seconds ago from Gwibber [...]
September 20th, 2009 at 4:31 am
I, for one, welcome our new hypnotoad overlords.
September 20th, 2009 at 6:14 am
I LOVED IT
IT WAS MUCH BETTER THAN “CATS”
I’M GOING TO SEE IT AGAIN AND AGAIN
…whoops, wrong hypno-reference.
September 20th, 2009 at 9:30 am
Hmmm! I wonder if toads legs are as tasty as frogs,,,erk,,,”Hey! Let go of my leg, you toad!”
Gary 7
September 20th, 2009 at 10:45 am
LMAO @ Kevin F.!!!!!!
September 20th, 2009 at 11:08 am
All glory to the hypnotoad
September 20th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Phil this is so pointless, I can’t believe you’re wasting both yours and our precious time on random pontless stuff like this, it’s is just another example of ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!
September 20th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Yay! Unfortunately all the good comments have been made by now
September 20th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Wasn’t there a deadly Amazonian Staring Frog in Southpark?
September 21st, 2009 at 8:46 am
I’ve seen better fr…. ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!
September 21st, 2009 at 9:05 am
[...] (Via Bad Astronomy) [...]
September 21st, 2009 at 10:41 am
“Wazowski, you forgot your paperwork again!”
Sorry. Couldn’t resist.
September 21st, 2009 at 11:17 am
Amazing looking creature. It’s as if it’s physically designed to just sit there like a mantle piece and not move at all.
September 21st, 2009 at 11:26 am
[...] Hypnotoad IRL [...]
September 21st, 2009 at 12:06 pm
ALL HAIL THE HYNOTOAD! WE MUST SERVE THE HYPNOTOAD!
September 21st, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Meh, I dunno. Everybody Loves Hypnotoad has been going downhill since season three.
September 22nd, 2009 at 6:11 am
@ Strahlungsamt: “Your stunned silence is veeery reassuring.”
September 24th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
I laughed so hard it hurt my Boneitis!