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And the tadpoles have black fangs!

You just know an article is going to be good when it’s titled, “‘Vampire Flying Frog’ Found; Tadpoles Have Black Fangs”, as this National Geographic feature shows.

The mountain jungles of Vietnam are home to a new breed of “vampire”—a “flying” tree frog dubbed Rhacophorus vampyrus.

First found in 2008, the 2-inch-long (5-centimeter-long) amphibian is known to live only in southern Vietnamese cloud forests, where it uses webbed fingers and toes to glide from tree to tree.