Harri Elizabeth Weber is a science and tech journalist in Los Angeles, CA. Her work has appeared in TechCrunch, Fast Company, Gizmodo, VentureBeat and The Next Web.
ArticleBody:A frog species once considered unique for its apparent total lack of lungs actually had pipes all along, according to biologists at the University of Florida’s Natural History Museum. The lungs, described in a study published on Monday in Current Biology, may be simplified and small relative to the species’ roughly 2- to 4-inch frame, but they’re still lungs.
The lungs of this particular species appear to be far smaller “than the most closely related species that lives on the Philippines island of Palawan,” the biologist added. The frog species’ little lungs “suggest a reduced respiratory role,” per the 2024 study. “As such, it may still be the case that cutaneous respiration is important to the physiology of B. kalimantanensis as previously hypothesized.
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