A farmer found dozens of small eggs scattered across his field after a light rain recently 😱 The eggs seemed too big to be insects and too small to be birds.
The farmer decided to contact a biologist he knew, and they were shocked to realize whose eggs they were 😲😲 Continued in the first comment 👇👇
Early one morning, 64-year-old Nebraska farmer Thomas Rayner went out as usual to check his soybean fields.
He had lived alone since his wife died, and every morning was the same for him – until the day he noticed something strange among the shoots.
On a patch of ground that had recently received a light rain lay dozens of small, translucent, bluish-gray eggs.
They were scattered, as if someone had deliberately scattered them. Thomas had never seen anything like them before. The eggs seemed too big to be insects and too small to be birds.
He decided not to touch them, but took photographs and sent the pictures to a local biologist.
A day later, specialists from the University of Nebraska arrived. After examining the site, they quickly determined that it was not an anomaly or a biological threat.
Thomas stumbled upon a clutch
of an amphibian called the spotted tree frog
, which scientists say is becoming increasingly common in the region due to climate change and increased humidity.
However, what was unusual was that the eggs were not in water, as is usually the case, but on the soil – this is rare.
Biologists explained this by the fact that the female could have laid eggs after a heavy rain, in a micropond that had formed temporarily between rows of plants. Perhaps she simply made a mistake – or tried to adapt to new conditions.
To Thomas’s surprise, after a few days, some of the eggs actually hatched into tiny tadpoles. He gave them a small area and filled it with water so they could develop further.
The rest of the eggs, unfortunately, died – the soil quickly dried out.
