Having your (toad) cake and getting your toxins too!

The first case of a vertebrate getting its toxin from a carnivorous diet.

See:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?art...8A12ACF6BB25D8

http://www.livescience.com/animalwor...oad_toxin.html

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...eir-venom.html

The Scientific American Article is probably the best written piece in my opinion, but the pics from Livescience are nice.

That is pretty fascinating!

Thats really interesting! Very cool that they aren't just immune to the toxins but can utilize them as well. Great post mendel!


~mike

Very interesting post Mendel, thanks for sharing!