Its not a toadstool but rather a frog mushroom! Citizen scientist Chinmay C. Maliye and Lohit Y.T found a group of Rao’s Intermediate Golden-backed Frogs in the foothills of the Kudremukha Range in Karnataka, India.

“One individual perched on a twig had a distinct outgrowth on its left bank,” they write in the journal Reptiles and Amphibians. — Read the rest

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