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Kevin Bayliss, character designer for Donkey Kong Country, revealed on his personal social media accounts that the Kremlings in that game actually originate with a design made in 1991 for a canceled project.

As such, Kremlings actually predate Donkey Kong Country by 3 years and were merely adapted from a pre-existing idea rather than being designed from scratch for that project.

Brazilian frog might be the first pollinating amphibian known to science

Nectar-loving tree frog likely moves pollen from flower to flower.

The creamy fruit and nectar-rich flowers of the milk fruit tree are irresistible to Xenohyla truncata, a tree frog native to Brazil. On warm nights, the dusky-colored frogs take to the trees en masse, jostling one another for a chance to nibble the fruit and slurp the nectar. In the process, the frogs become covered in sticky pollen grains—and might inadvertently pollinate the plants, too.  It’s the first time a frog—or any amphibian—has been observed pollinating a plant, researchers reported last month in Food Webs...