World’s First Lung-less Frog Discovered in Borneo

Posted on: Saturday, April 12th, 2008 in: Reptiles and Amphibians in the News

Indonesia’s Kalimantan jungle toad (aka Bornean flat-headed frog), Barboula kalimantenensis, has been declared the only frog known to lack lungs. The frog itself was not collected and described until 1978. The fact that it is lung-less was released on April 10, 2008, by Dr. David Bickford of the National University of Singapore. The picture listed [...]