Whoa! Mutant Tadpoles Sprout Eyeballs on Their Tails

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Eye on the tail
Scientists experimented with 134 tadpoles of the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis, a common lab animal. They painstakingly grafted new eyes onto places such as their torsos and tails and then surgically removed their original eyes.

 [See Images of the Odd-Eyed Tadpoles]
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