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#because homeotic transformations in the *middle* of the trunk were basically impossible to achieve in a survivable manner
markscherz
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Just learned that tadpoles with injured tails sometimes regenerate them with extra legs
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So that's neat.
#the more you know
#frogs
#science
#animals
#zoology
#developmental biology
#holy shit
#this is called a homeotic transformation
#and I think I have only really heard about them in fruitflies
#so seeing it in frogs really fucked me up
#how incredibly cool
#I always thought the creatures from Pandora could not exist in vertebrates
#because homeotic transformations in the *middle* of the trunk were basically impossible to achieve in a survivable manner
#but it had not occurred to me that you could just… add more to the end
#this changes everything
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