A 52-year old woman from Thailand is claiming that aside from enjoying riding toy motorcycles, her pet frog can also predict winning lottery numbers. Tongsai Boommrungtai, 52, said she came across the black spotted frog outside her house in Roi-Et.

A six-legged frog has become an instant celebrity in China and has been repaying his newfound owner, a chef on a local restaurant by attracting diners. "I bought more than 5 kilos of frogs from the market the other day, and upon coming back found that one of them has six legs," says chef Xiao Song.

Jiang Musheng from China's eastern Jiangxi Province was 26 years old when a man from his village recommended him to swallow live frogs as a remedy to his regular back and stomach pains. Initially hesitant, Musheng tried two of them and four decades later he is still eating them, though he has added some rodents to his menu. Now 66, Musheng believes that swallowing live frogs and mice has not only alleviated his pains, he reports feeling stronger and his health has improved according to a report in the Beijing News.

An environmental group in Australia has captured a "monster" toad that weighs 2 pounds, is 8 inches long toad and is among the largest specimens ever captured in the northern city of Darwin, Australia. Graeme Sawyer, the coordinator of the group FrogWatch, said, "It's huge, to put it mildly" adding that the male frog is almost the size of a football. It is twice the weight of an average cane frog and almost one-third longer and heavier than the previous biggest a female captured in the middle of Darwin.

An Australian wildlife worker was called to pull a 7-foot python out of a septic tank, after a plumber found it hiding in a woman's toilet. Peter Phillips, a wildlife officer for the Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife Service, said in a statement released by the Northern Territory government, "The . . . resident originally called a plumber because her toilet was blocked. I arrived to see a large python head peering out of the toilet bowl. "