{"id":2194,"date":"2004-03-06T08:48:21","date_gmt":"2004-03-06T12:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/03\/06\/signs-of-the-apocalypse-dept\/"},"modified":"2004-03-06T08:48:21","modified_gmt":"2004-03-06T12:48:21","slug":"signs-of-the-apocalypse-dept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/03\/06\/signs-of-the-apocalypse-dept\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of the Apocalypse Dept."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2900'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p>\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/3heds.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" align=\"left\">Experts are amazed at the discovery. Children in a nursery were shocked when<br \/>\n    they spotted a three-headed frog hopping<br \/>\nin their garden. <\/p>\n<p>The creature &#8211; which has six legs &#8211; has stunned BBC wildlife experts who warned<br \/>\nit could be an early warning of environmental problems.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Pepper, from the Green Umbrella nursery in Weston-super-Mare, said: &quot;We<br \/>\nthought it was three frogs attempting to copulate at first.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It is very strange. The children couldn&#8217;t believe it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Mike Dilger, from the BBC Natural History Unit, added: &quot;I have never seen<br \/>\nanything like this.;Frogs are primitive animals &#8211; so the occasional extra toe is not that unusual.<br \/>\nBut this is very unusual.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>All the creature&#8217;s eyes and legs appear to function normally, but it is not known<br \/>\nwhether it eats using all three of its mouths. The mystery amphibian is currently<br \/>\nthe subject of a frog-hunt after it hopped away and disappeared as staff at the<br \/>\nnursery showed it to curious parents.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/somerset\/3534361.stm\">the BBC<\/a>\n      <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts are amazed at the discovery. Children in a nursery were shocked when they spotted a three-headed frog hopping in their garden. The creature &#8211; which has six legs &#8211; has stunned BBC wildlife experts who warned it could be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/03\/06\/signs-of-the-apocalypse-dept\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}