BERLIN -- Here's a story you don't hear every day -- toads are exploding in a pond in Germany.
Scientists say they have no explanation for what has caused more than 1,000 toads to puff up in a Hamburg pond this month and explode. Both the pond's water and body parts of the toads have been tested, but no bacteria or virus has been detected.
A scientist with the Hamburg-based Institute for Hygiene and the Environment called it "absolutely strange" -- saying it doesn't appear to have happened anywhere before.
The toads fill up like balloons until their stomachs suddenly burst. The head of a local environmental group said it looks like a scene from a science fiction movie.
What they're not telling us is that the toads had been reading Andrew Sullivan's blog just before exploding.
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