Might be - there are tall tales in the U.S. and whoppers here in Texas.
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Pay respects to Old Rip, the state's most famous horny toad. Kelly
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Maybe you are thinking of a more water based toad. In El Paso the
'fleshy' toads waller down in the mud as the pond
of desert starts to dry out from a monsoon rain. They come out when the
next storm hits and go through another cycle.
But old 'Rip' was a dry type of Horned Toad from the southwest. Mostly
thorn. :-)
Martin
aydin wrote:
> That's a made-up story. Toads can't survive that long in hibernation.
>
> As for snails, they have been transported many times on limestone & marble.
> In fact, the U.S. gets snails all the time on tiles & marble products
> imported from Italy, Turkey, etc.
>
>
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:15:05 -0500, Martin H. Eastburn
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
>> This reminds me of the Toad that was said to be in hibernation for 50 years
>> in a cornerstone. They built a new court house (or something) and took down
>> the old one - opened the cornerstone and the toad slowly came to life.
>> It was
>> a side show by itself and has a resting place of honor back at home.
>>
>> On the snails - could it not be egg casings that were laid in pores of
>> the limestone
>> and when the limestone eroded (melted) away or cement cracked off that
>> they got
>> moisture enough to hatch and come forth.
>>
>> I think there are desert toads and fish? like that. Why not mollusks as
>> well.
>>
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> aydin wrote:
>>
>>> That's old news:
>>>
>>>
> http://snailstales.blogspot.com/2008/08/old-news-about-papillifera-papillaris.html
>
>>> or: http://tinyurl.com/5o8kch
>>>
>>> Aydin
>>> snailstales.blogspot.com
>>>
>>> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:28:08 -0400, Ellen Bulger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7572553.stm
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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