Discovered a toad with 5 legs

A toad with up to five feet was accidentally found near the Attenborough nature reserve, England.

The creature of this mutant amphibian has accidentally appeared on the way of Faye Sweeney, 27, who lives in Chilwell, not far from Nottingham when she is walking her dog.

Initially, Sweeney did not detect the toad's unusual sign until she lifted it up with the intention of avoiding it if it was accidentally rolled by someone to discover that the little animal had one more. Extra leg.

Although there was an extra front leg, the strange toad could still walk normally.

5-foot toad discovered in the UK

Shortly thereafter Sweeney brought the strange animal to the Notts Wildlife Trust wildlife center for scientists to study the cause of this animal's extraordinary mutation.

Erin McDail of Notts Wildlife Trust said this is a very rare case in frogs and toads. " This is definitely the first case I witnessed, " he said.

Animals are quite small in size

McDail observed the strange animal and tried to find out the same cases that occur in frogs and frogs, seeing that this is not the first known case in the UK or in the world, but its cause. Still not known specifically.

On March 20, a man in Jiangsu, China also caught two strange frogs at a market in which one had seven feet and the other had five legs.

Both of these animals are larger than normal and they can jump very quickly on the ground. A scientist in Jiangsu said that their mutation is due to the result of genetic mutation caused by water pollution.

The woman showed off toad a total of 12 genera

" In some cases they have been attacked by parasites while in tadpole, leading to a deformation of some body part. But there are other explanations that water pollution is also the cause. leads to the phenomenon of mutations "- Mr. McDail said.

In the case of toad 5 genera in the UK, scientists are more inclined to hypothesis 1.