A Central African frog fights off predators by driving the sharp bones of its own toes out through its skin to form claws, a defense biologists first described in detail in 2008

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The claws are not made of the usual material. They are naked bone, hidden under the skin, that the frog forces outward through the soft tissue of its own foot when something grabs it. The post A Central African frog fights off predators by driving the sharp bones of its own toes out through its skin to form claws, a defense biologists first described in detail in 2008 appeared first on Space Daily .