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No frogs were harmed in the making of a Florida high schools science class.
J.W. Mitchell High School in New Port Richey began using synthetic frogs for educational dissections last Wednesday. Pasco County Superintendent Kurt Browning says its the first school in the world to use the technology.
The lives of real frogs are being spared at a cost of $150 per synthetic frog. Tampa-based developer SynDaver received funds from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to help create the SynFrog.
SynDaver says the fake frogs are made of water, fibers and salts and can be reused. Founder and CEO Dr. Christopher Sakezles says the synthetic frogs are also safer because there are no potentially harmful chemicals.
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article237746629.html#storylink=cpy
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Kermit Thanks You! 🐸 (Original Post)
Floyd R. Turbo
Nov 2019
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I hated dissection...made me hate biology. Still can't abide the smell of formaldehyde.
Karadeniz
Nov 2019
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hlthe2b
(102,231 posts)1. Gee, Miami Herald? No picture?
sl8
(13,748 posts)2. Oh. Um. Well, Floyd, I guess you're old enough now to know the truth.
Kermit is a synthetic frog.
OK, I told him, this time. Next time it's someone else's turn.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)3. Nooooooooooooo!
Karadeniz
(22,511 posts)4. I hated dissection...made me hate biology. Still can't abide the smell of formaldehyde.