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Thursday, March 29, 2007

Maybe it was just one frog?

http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2007/03/28/australian_toad_the_size_of_a_small_dog/?p1=MEWell_Pos3

There's an ancient dispute among the Rabbis of the Talmud about whether the plague of frogs in Egypt was a swarming mass of frogs (the dominant opinion) or perhaps one giant frog (the opinion of Rabbi Akiba). While Rabbi Akiba is dismissed even within rabbinic literature on this point--who would think a giant frog would roam the banks of the Nile?--this story out of Australia seems to give him a bit of support. Check out the size of this thing! (Also--I think I'm going to join Frogwatch just to say I'm a member...)