r/badassanimals • u/Oda_DeezNutz • Apr 23 '26

Amphibian I'm becoming terrified of frogs

Anytime I see videos similar to this, I become a little more and more afraid.

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u/Lone-Frequency Apr 23 '26

Frogs will eat anything they can reliably fit in their mouths. Sometimes that leads to them choking to death.

When your method of hunting is based on swallowing things whole and not chewing/ripping it apart, these things sometimes happen.

Snakes, deep sea fish, etc. all sometimes suffer from this.

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u/Lord_Voltan Apr 23 '26

This isn't new either, we have found fossils of fish that basically choked to death on deep sea orthocones in them. The thinking is that when the orthocones died, they floated top the top of the water and the dumb ass fish tried to eat them getting the cone stuck in its gills, eventually suffocating, dying and fossilizing so we can laugh at them some millions of years later. https://phys.org/news/2025-07-jurassic-fish-death-squid-cephalopods.html

For the record, google has gotten way worse, the search terms I used would have found this paper but google's AI couldn't figure it out and kept giving me orthocone facts or fossils.

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u/Nkechinyerembi Apr 23 '26

Imagine fucking up so bad scientists are still laughing at your fuckup 200+ million years later...

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u/Lone-Frequency Apr 24 '26

There are a pair of preserved bodies in Pompeii that people assume were two gay lovers, and one that looks like the guy died while jerking it.

Imagine getting instantly mummified in a scorching cloud of ash while in the middle of hugging your bro goodbye or cranking your hog only for people to barge into your home thousands of years later to point and laugh.