Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Nature News

Rare albino tadpoles found in garden pond that have astonished scientists
Experts on amphibians have been caught on the hop by a rare batch of albino tadpoles living in a garden pond.
Tiny pale globules of frog spawn and tadpoles are now under observation at a secret and closely guarded address in Carmarthenshire, west Wales.
Experts from Froglife were called in after at least four separate blobs of albino spawn were found deposited in the pond.
They believe the "highly unusual" discovery could point to a significant frog population carrying the rare recessive gene for albinism.

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