Discovered the special

This is a hairy toad, with claws quite like a cat's claw. This species can break its bones to create claws, which act like toads.

This superhuman toad has the scientific name of Trichobatrachus robustus, and they live in Cameroon.

This is a hairy toad, with claws quite like a cat's claw. This species can break its bones to create claws, which act like toads. This feature reminds us of Wolverin's Wolverine character in the classic X-men movie.

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This hairy toad has a very strange defense mechanism.

According to David Blackburn and scientists at Harvard University Zoological Museum, this may be the way for this toad to defend itself.

We have known that salamanders can poke ribs through the skin to form prongs to protect when attacked. However, the protection mechanism of this toad is completely different, first discovered.

This characteristic was also found in nine of the 11 species of the Astylosternus family, mainly living in Cameroon.

These claws are only seen on the back of the toad. Scientists believe that when attacked, toads will act on muscles, attached to claws, and these muscles will work to push the claws out, through the skin. In fact, these claws are the toad bones, naked, nothing like other claws.

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Scientists still do not know the mechanism for collecting claws of this species.

Because scientists only detect these individuals when they are dead, they do not know how the claw mechanism takes place.

The toad's existence with cat-like claws was first discovered by Belgian animal scientist George Boulenger in 1900 in the French colony of Congo, now in the Republic of Congo.

Update 16 December 2018
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