Mein Gott! The Toads are Exploding!

According to BBC News,

Toads in an area of northern Germany are being killed off by a mysterious disease - they are exploding.

Thousands of the amphibians have died in recent days in a pond in Hamburg's Altona district, with their bodies swelling to bursting point. The toads' entrails are propelled for up to a metre (3.2ft), in scenes that have been likened to science fiction.

Scientists are baffled.

Besides being outrageously bizarre and, at least in the cartoon-like images flitting about in my imagination, hilariously funny, this story provides one other happy thought....For some reason I am absolutely delighted to read those three words, "Scientists are baffled." I find them strangly comforting, somehow. Hmmm........

BOOM!

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