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These strange, flat frogs can 'see' with their fingers, biologists say

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UCLA biologists have made an incredible new discovery about a species of strange, flat frogs with minuscule eyes in the Amazon basin that catch their prey in an unusual way. The water in the Amazon basin is murky, and the frogs' vision is poor, but biologists have discovered that strange lobes on their fingertips are [...]

First report: Star-fingered toads use fingertip lobules to detect prey in murky water — phys.org, 6d