Biologists Have Named A New Tree Frog Species After Ozzy Osbourne

When Ozzy Osbourne bit the capitulum off a bat in a 1981 concert , he never could have reckon that the event would be commemorated decades later by metalhead scientists , who find a weird toad frog while on an excursion in the Brazilian Amazon .

“ As before long as I pick up its call , I get it on it was a new specie . I had never heard anything like it , ” Pedro Peloso , one of the Gaul ’s discoverers , toldNational Geographic :

The male frogs also have an unusually turgid outspoken sac , a nearly transparent piece of tegument that inflate to give rise its unequaled richly - pitched chirping auditory sensation . Male tree Gaul in general make loud calls to pass on with females in distant treetops , but the new species is the first love to fathom like a squash racquet .

The research worker captured 21 specimens of the bantam , 0.75 - inch brown - and - red amphibious vehicle and brought them back to their lab . They kept bring up to it as the “ chiropteran frog , ” which lead to them talk about being fan of Black Sabbath and the infamous onstage bat beheading . ( Osbourne later said he thought the bat was rubber . )

And thus a new taxonomic designation was bear : Dendropsophus ozzyi , which is described in the November 6thissueof the daybook Zootaxa .

Based upon the act of specimens collected , Peloso believes the anuran is wide distributed throughout the Amazon rainforests . The fact that nobody find it before , he says , is a testament to the extraordinary biodiversity of the region . It ’s a matter of being in the right shoes at the right time . Or , to cite Black Sabbath , “ I need someone to show me the things in liveliness that I ca n’t find . ”

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