It's a brand new species of frog! This guy was found in the South American highlands of Suriname.Leeanne Alonso of Conservation International led an expxpedition into the unexplored region of South America and discovered him along with 24 other species. The article quotes her as saying, "When you go to these places that are so unexplored and so remote, we do tend to find new species ... but most of them are insects ... What's really exciting here is we found a lot of new species of frogs and fish as well."
Easy there, Leeanne Alonso of the Conservation International! The frog's neat, sure. It looks like the paint job they might give to a Mazda RX-8 in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. But I don't think that quite qualifies as "really exciting." Maybe Leeanne Alonso of the Conservation International didn't know this, but National Hyperbole Day was LAST month.
So the frog's neat. Wicked cool, even. But not "really exciting." If you are tramping aroung in the uncharted South American jungles, and you come back to report "really exciting" news, I'll be expecting Land-of-the-Lost caliber discoveries. "Really exciting" stuff from excursions into unknown South American jungle regions include dinosaurs and freakishly giant aminals. Or a Sleestak.
Still, that's one wicked cool frog.
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What's a Sleestak?!?!?!??
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Anyway, as I grow older and more wise, I realise that National Hyperbole Day is an everyday occurrence.
Bridget, Bridget, Bridet . . . I am shocked and amazed you have let your pop culture knowledge slip so. Sleestak are everywhere.
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/04/06/liberal-blogs-get-punked/
I wonder what those frogs taste like . . . probably pretty good, since they're so rare.
There, Bridge. I made "Sleestak" a hyperlink to the appropriate wikipedia page just for you.
THANKS, STEAK!!!!!!!!
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