Via Found comes [news.bbc.co.uk]

Toads in an area of northern Germany are being killed off by a mysterious disease – they are exploding.

Thousands of the amphibians have died in recent days in a pond in Hamburg’s Altona district, with their bodies swelling to bursting point.

The toads’ entrails are propelled for up to a metre (3.2ft), in scenes that have been likened to science fiction.

Scientists are baffled.

Funny how you always find scientists baffled but never unbaffled, freely-aspirating or whatever …