The Dangerous Minds audience has shown an inordinate interest in looking at things on top of other things (sounds to me like a Monty Python category), so we humbly present Cryptobatarchus boulengeri, a frog species that mostly resides in Colombia and resembles a creature from Aliens, perhaps? The mommas of the Cryptobatrachus boulengeri species carry their offspring from egg all the way up to froglet.

The name Cryptobatrachus boulengeri honors a noted Belgian-British zoologist named George Albert Boulenger, and indeed another name for Cryptobatrachus boulengeri is Boulenger’s backpack frog. Boulenger had a notable Donald Trump tendency when it came to naming species, there’s also Boulenger’s burrowing asp, Boulenger’s short-legged skink, Boulenger’s tree agama, Boulenger’s pygmy chameleon, among others…..

If you’re looking for a stocking stuffer for your herpetologist friends (that is, lizard and reptile enthusiasts), you could do a lot worse than this page-turner from Boulenger himself: Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History): Volume 2: Iguanidæ, Xenosauridæ, Zonuridæ, Anguidæ, Anniellidæ, Helodermatidæ, Varanidæ, Xantusiidæ, Teiidæ, Amphisbænidæ.

Here’s the full pic of Cryptobatrachus:
 

 
Pics of Cryptobatrachus boulengeri are not too common, but other species also deploy the same strategy, apparently, including Cryptobatrachus pedroruizi:
 

 
And Cryptobatrachus fuhrmanni:
 

 
via Neatorama
 

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Girl gives birth to frog: LSD to blame