Mysterious Frog Eggs Found in Connecticut

AP to My Yahoo! ^ | Fri Oct 3, 2003 | Anon

[Pharmboy]

Primo D 'Agata holds a jar containing a sample of the
amphibian eggs at his Berlin, Conn., home Wednesday,
Oct. 1, 2003, that fell on his back deck in Berlin, Conn.,
on Sept. 19, 2003 as the remnants of Hurrican Isabel passed Connecticut.
Naturalists and biologists think the eggs belong to a variety
of frog found in North Carolina that were swept up by the hurricane,
carried by the storm to New England and were deposited there. (
AP Photo/Bob Child)

BERLIN, Conn. - Hurricane Isabel brought unholy high winds and lashing rain to the East Coast. It also dumped something almost biblical on Connecticut.

AP Photo

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Primo D'Agata was startled by what he thought was hail smacking on his porch Sept. 19 as the remnants of Isabel moved through the state. But when he went outside to investigate, D'Agata discovered tiny, gelatinous eggs with dark spots in the middle.

It had apparently been raining frogs.

Since no frogs in Connecticut lay eggs this late in the year, scientists and naturalists speculate they may have come up from North Carolina or another warm location on the winds of Isabel.

D'Agata brought a bowl of his mysterious find to a nearby nature center, after the town's animal control officer couldn't identify what had arrived in his yard.

Nicolas Diaz, a naturalist and teacher at New Britain Youth Museum at Hungerford Park, took a look at D'Agata's bowl and told him it looked like amphibian eggs.

D'Agata is keeping two small, water-filled glass jars of the eggs to see if any of them will hatch. He said a few seem to have sprouted what look like a tail.

"I'm going to let them sit and see what happens," D'Agata said Wednesday.

[Pharmboy]

A strange one...

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[kevao]

The French have invaded Connecticut.

[putupon]

Primo D 'Agata holds a jar containing a sample of the amphibian eggs at his Berlin, Conn., home Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2003, that fell on his back deck in Berlin

How far is Berlin, Conn. from the Canadian border? Are we being seeded?

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[southernnorthcarolina]

Mmmmmm. Frog caviar...

[Highest Authority]

They're not frog's eggs, they're DemonRAT brains!

[theDentist]

"I'm going to let them sit and see what happens," D'Agata said Wednesday.

If you boil 'em, you can see how they taste!

[Pharmboy]

Pinging...

[ASA Vet]

DemonRAT brains

Oxymoron Alert!

[Thinkin' Gal]

BERLIN, Conn. - Hurricane Isabel brought unholy high winds and lashing rain to the East Coast. It also dumped something almost biblical on Connecticut.

Unclean spirits ping.

[Pharmboy]

LOL!!

[aculeus]

A strange one...

[Just mythoughts]

Can't wait to see them "MARCH", they should be named Wilson's frog/eggs.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

An interesting lesson in how species can/have spread around the world.

[katnip]

[katnip]

Run away! As fast and far as you can from Connecticut!

[blam]

We have a weed here in the Mobile area that everyone calls 'coffee weed' (Don't know why), it first appeared in this area after hurricane Frederic in 1979.

[Pharmboy]

Good point! I missed that...