by Anthony | Apr 15, 2015 | Countering Mumblebard
Frogs grow on soup, not vegetables. Prof. Mumblebard claims: “The free-swimming larvae of most frogs[1] worldwide are herbivorous. Whereas the adults eat animals[2], the larvae of the same species of frogs are usually grazers. So any sentence combining ‘frogs’...
by Anthony | Mar 30, 2015 | Countering Mumblebard
Featured image: Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) by Camazine at English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0) Urodeles have a continental form. Prof. Mumblebard claims: “Salamanders have varied habitats but are restricted to the Northern Hemisphere except for...
by Anthony | Mar 26, 2015 | Biological Exposition
Note to readers: Biological Expositions is a series of blog-posts each of which is equivalent in content to a book chapter. If bio-bullets are likened to a starter, blog-posts could be seen as a light lunch and Biological Expositions as a three course meal. We look...
by Anthony | Mar 15, 2015 | Countering Mumblebard
Zealandic amphibians are a damp squib. Prof. Mumblebard claims: “New Zealand, like Tasmania and Patagonia at similar latitudes, is a former piece of Gondwana. However, it differs from these other southern lands in having an extremely poor and primitive fauna of frogs,...
by Anthony | Feb 28, 2015 | Countering Mumblebard
Tetrapod fingers © Fritz Geller-Grimm, via Wikimedia Commons Digital opposability in perching frogs. Prof. Mumblebard claims: “Living amphibians consistently retain only four fingers on the forelimb. The missing digit is either number 5, homologous with our...
