“Hey, remember the gastric brooding frog?” “Which one was that again?” “You know, the cute little one where I cleverly arranged for it to incubate its eggs inside its stomach and then regurgitate the hatchlings through its mouth.” “Ugh, right. What is it with you and frog hatching, evolution? Anyway, didn’t the baby-vomiting one go extinct?” “Yeah, it did. But now the humans are trying to resurrect it!” “What? Why?” “Because everything deserves a second chance.” “Really? Everything?” “Man, I knew I was keeping those big-brained weirdos around for something.”
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“Hey, remember the gastric brooding frog?”

“Which one was that again?”

“You know, the cute little one where I cleverly arranged for it to incubate its eggs inside its stomach and then regurgitate the hatchlings through its mouth.”

“Ugh, right. What is it with you and frog hatching, evolution? Anyway, didn’t the baby-vomiting one go extinct?”

“Yeah, it did. But now the humans are trying to resurrect it!”

“What? Why?”

“Because everything deserves a second chance.”

“Really? Everything?”

“Man, I knew I was keeping those big-brained weirdos around for something.”

Source: National Geographic

Good evolutionary defense mechanisms: Running very fast. Hiding really well. Being full of poison. Having wicked spikes. 

Questionable evolutionary defense mechanisms: … whatever this is.

From an evolutionary standpoint, reproducing is the single most important thing you can do in your time on this planet. In fact, it’s the only thing that really matters at all. In light of that, evolution has taken pains to ensure that reproduction is always as pleasant, easy and undisturbing a process as possible.

Ha! Just kidding, of course. It’s usually totally horrifying.

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