Eyeless, lungless amphibian looks like a…
I don’t mean to lower the tone of the website by posting about an animal that looks like a male generative organ, but I’m going to do just that. This slimy beast has been making a bit of a splash on the science and environment pages of many a website of late after Brazilian biologists found six examples of the blind and lungless species of amphibian called the Atretochoana eiselti at the bottom of a drained river in the northern state of Rondonia. A ‘member’ (stop it) of the caecilian order of amphibians, which physically resemble earthworms or snakes, very…
