Exploding toads baffle experts

[NikFu S.]

Exploding Toads Baffle Experts

'Hundreds of toads have met an unexplained, explosive demise in Germany in recent days, it was reported on Saturday.'

'According to reports from animal welfare workers and veterinarians as many as a thousand of the amphibians have perished after their bodies swelled to bursting point and their entrails were propelled for up to a metre.'

'"You see the animals crawling on the ground, swelling and then exploding," he said.

He said the bodies of the toads expanded to three-and-a-half times their normal size.'

End of the world? Or just something they ate?