7-Legged Frog No Freak of Nature, Experts Say
Associated Press
DES MOINES —
Michael Leonetti’s new pet would make a gourmet’s mouth water: a frog with seven legs.
Michael, 11, discovered the frog at the Des Moines Water Works Park where he was fishing for tadpoles with a friend.
The Science Center of Iowa said frogs are able to reproduce injured limbs. Bonnie Callan, life science curator at the center, said she believes that one of the frog’s legs was cut as it matured from a tadpole.
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