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Spent sometime this past Friday a week ago at the Museum of Natural Science in the Museum District here in Houston. I originally went to see Lucy, the 3.2 million year old Australopithecus afarensis skeleton on display at the museum, but after paying for my $20 ticket, I discovered that all photography was strictly prohibited. I asked for my money back.

I figured that I wouldn't waste my trip there, and so paid to see the special Frogs! exhibit and took a few photos. Many of my photos of the frogs were a bit off, seeing as I was trying to photograph without using a flash. That didn't turn out so well, so I turned my flash on, and got a few good shots in before the museum police told me to stop using flash on the frogs (a nocturnal animal). Yes, I'm evil. I probably stunned a few, me being the amphibian paparazzo and all.

The frog in the header is tiny. He could sit on your fingernail with ease. Hidden in the shadow under a wide leaf, he looks out over all his domain, dwarfed by a chunk of orange fruit on the right side of the picture.

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Side Note: On leaving the museum, I noticed a protest going on across the parking lot. Not the protest that you might think surrounding fossil bones that help support the evolutionary theory of mankind. No, these were Ethiopians, protesting the fact that the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the only museum in the world slated to show Lucy's remains outside of Ethiopia, paid the dictatorship running Ethiopia money.(Currently, the elected leaders of Ethiopia are reportedly in prison)

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