Quote Originally Posted by daniel1983
It might be something in the water. Genetic defects in amphibians are one of the early indicators that something is not right in the environment You should see some of the oddities that are pulled out of polluted swamps.

I have seen lizards like that before. Stuff like that generally happens to a lizard that can 'regrow' its tail. If the tail does not fall all the way off and a new one grows.....they can end up looking like that. The new tail grows while the old one still remains....kinda crazy

Great post!
when i was in grade school stuff like this was happening in Wisconsin, we had a big water pollution bit in our science class all year.
When i was a kid my grandparents would take me to their cottage on the lake. the area in which they lived had a gravel road about 20 feet away from the water and each night you could find a gillion frogs hopping all around that road. I would collect them in a mino (spelling?) bucket and when that would get to full Id stick em in my jacket pocket. Later that night before I went to bed my grandmother would make me take them back to the shore and marsh area and let them free so I could catch them the next night when Id do it all over again....its been about 12 years since then and I can hardly find a frog in the marsh more or less the road. Nothing by that lake is the same....its a shame that the delicate balance of things are easily disrupted. I only wished my kids could do the same as I used to...I guess they will have to go to the zoo to get there fill of wildlife....boohoo!