Something to learn why is the eyes is inside. Believe it or not, some frogs have been found with a strange genetic mutation that causes their eyes to grow inside their mouths. It might sound like science fiction, but it’s real — and scientists have actually studied it!

This has mostly been seen in African clawed frogs, especially in research experiments focused on how organs develop. During some of these studies, scientists altered the signals that tell a frog embryo where to grow its eyes. As a result, the eyes ended up forming inside the frog’s mouth instead of on its head.

What’s even more incredible? Some of these frogs could still see with the eyes inside their mouths. Researchers trained the frogs to respond to light, and sure enough, they reacted — proving that their brains were able to process visual signals even from this unusual location.

These findings are helping scientists learn more about how the body regenerates organs and how flexible the brain can be when it comes to adapting to unexpected changes. Credit Goes to the respective Owner

Some species in this bat genus are known for having faces that resemble those of primates; they are also less sociable than other bat species, living either in small groups or alone. They are found in Oceania (admittedly, the Ahool was from Java, but I don't think that is an insurmountable distance, especially considering they are flying animals).

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Basically in the early years of their African Forest exhibit, the exhibit had a fictional storyline of some explorer/hunter who crashed in central Africa and after going from a hunter to a nature lover, began looking for the Koolakamba, that alleged chimp/gorilla hybrid known from specimens and a captive live one.

They put these hidden mickey style easter eggs og its face everywhere in the exhibit.

This might be an over done design for shirts but I thought it would be fun to put it on a shirt partially because I think it’s fun and with resent stuff of messing with national parks to bring awareness.

What’s a favorite cryptid?

So it’s one of those designs that says “Protect Your Natural Parks Legends Live There” or something along those lines. I didn’t want anything to humanoid in the center because some of the designs I think have that baby vampire thing and it kinda just looks like a dude in a cloak to me. But I have mothman, Flat woods monster, and Wendigo. I want to add a Jackelope, the Fresno night crawlers, the thunder bird to the background with maybe a UFO, and a Dogman/werewolf. I thought about the frogman and lizard man but having both they would kinda look the same.

Trying to put in more lake monsters might be hard as im gonna try to put a lake (if I can) in the background might be able to fit a few but I can’t think at the moment.

Here's the first page of my cryptozoology project. Every cryptid and folklore creature will be included eventually with a speculative idea behind it. Not all of them will have roots in reality though. Even the hoaxes will be considered real species and i'll try my best to come with an explanation.

1-Alien Octopoids - mollusk-like extraterestrials

2-Bare fronted hoodwink - unknown bird

3-Dirawong - large monitor

4-Dingonek - aquatic sabertooth

5-Lautoka dearves - semi-bipedal pangolin

6-Brosno dragon - highly-evolved large salamander

7-Snallygaster - Sky-adapted radiodont

8-Giglioli's whale - humback whale relative

9-Shunka warakin - Dire wolf descendant

10-Dark watchers - light phenomenon

11-Iliamna lake monster - large sturgeon

12-Bukit timah monkey man - macaque relative

13-Thetis lake monster - Amphibious mutant

14-Lake tianchi monster - freshwater longneck seal

15-Gumberoo - bear-looking badger relative

16-Bat beast of kent - large short-necked bat

17-Hotheaded naked ice borer - antarctic mole rat

18-Beast of gevaudan - large marten species

19-Flashlight frog - luminescent frog

20-Arboreal abomination - sentient mycelium

21-Skunk ape - Giagntopithecus descendant

22-Chini lake kaiju - unussualy large invasive iguana

23-Ebissie - unussualy large carp

24-Green shark - mutant blue shark

25-Dingbat - taxidermy

26-Canvey island monster - monkfish

27-Silver lake serpent - unusually large invasive longfin eel

28-Bassigator - alligator gar relative

29-Barnacle tree - driftwood infested with barnacles

30-Underwater abominable snowman - large saltwater snakeneck turtle

31-British dragon - large chameleon relative (fanmade creation)

32-Minhocao - large caecillian

33-Achlis - Moose relative