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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Thu Mar 15, 2012, 01:51 PM Mar 2012

New species of frog found at Yankee Stadium

no, not in the owner's box.

http://news.yahoo.com/frog-species-discovered-york-city-004308986.html

Amazed biologists have uncovered a new species of frog in the jungle -- New York's concrete jungle.

The mottled green creature was for years mistaken as belonging to a widespread variety of the leopard frog. But now scientists realize this is new....

New York is surrounded by wetlands and other nature-filled areas. But this latest urban creature appears to have chosen one of the grittiest corners as the center of its habitat: Yankee Stadium in the Bronx....

"When I first heard these frogs calling, it was so different, I knew something was very off," Feinberg said.


Does it sound like "Ri-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-bit!! Ri-i-i-i-i-i-i-ii-i-i-i-i-i-bit!!"?

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