{"id":441,"date":"2008-12-11T15:36:11","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T20:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=441"},"modified":"2008-12-11T15:36:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T20:36:11","slug":"wolverine-frog-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"Wolverine! Frog-Style."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/data\/images\/ns\/cms\/dn13991\/dn13991-1_800.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/data\/images\/ns\/cms\/dn13991\/dn13991-1_800.jpg\" alt=\"Hairy Frog\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You know the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marvel.com\/universe\/X-Men\">X-Men<\/a>, right? Mutants who save the world and such. Awesome.<\/p>\n<p>And you know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marvel.com\/universe\/Wolverine_%28James_Howlett%29\">Wolverine<\/a>, right? Super-fast-healing hairy badass.<\/p>\n<p>And, you know how Wolverine has these claw-thingies that he can force through the skin of his hands? And, when asked whether it hurts when that happens, he said, &#8220;every time&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>How about a Wolverine frog? This is the baddest frog on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>First, it&#8217;s hairy. JUST LIKE WOLVERINE!<\/p>\n<p>Second, it&#8217;s got bones that it can thrust through its skin to act as claws. Yes, the bones literally tear through the skin. Yes. Just like Wolverine.<\/p>\n<p>And just like Wolverine, the skin heals itself after the claws retract back into the frog&#8217;s leg. At least, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn13991-horror-frog-breaks-own-bones-to-produce-claws.html\">that&#8217;s what scientists think.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[I wish I could show you the picture I saw this morning, showing the bones on the inside of the foot. Unfortunately, it was in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcknowledgemagazine.com\/index.php\">Knowledge<\/a> magazine, whose online version hasn&#8217;t caught up to its print version yet.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know the X-Men, right? Mutants who save the world and such. Awesome. And you know Wolverine, right? Super-fast-healing hairy badass. And, you know how Wolverine has these claw-thingies that he can force through the skin of his hands? And, when asked whether it hurts when that happens, he said, &#8220;every time&#8221;? How about a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution-and-such","category-science-and-such"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}