How Stuff Works: Frogs Legs

[Kekerusey]

How Stuff Works: How twitching frog legs and salt work – a little gross, yes, but fascinating

Frog Legs Dancing With A Little Salt

As you can see, the chef is preparing frog legs for dinner. He has skinned the frog legs and they are ready to be cooked. When he salts them, the muscles start twitching. The obvious question: why does that happen?

Because these are fresh frog legs, the cells inside them are all still intact. The biochemical machinery still functions. There is still a source of energy for the muscles in the form of unused ATP molecules stored in the cells. All that the muscles need is something to activate them and they can still contract and relax (until they run out of ATP or something else shuts down the biochemical machinery).
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That's freakin' amazing

Keke

[DJ Makto]

And here I was thinking that frogs legs were good eating.  

Joking aside, that is actually an interesting article.

Thanks for sharing. 

[Kekerusey]

Thanks for sharing.

My pleasure

Here's a couple of others I found today:

Pistol Shrimp

Potassium Chlorate and Gummy Bear

That pistol shrimp is just awesome, so amazing I had to look around first to make sure it wasn't some kind of windup.

Keke

[Seykxetskxe te Vawm 'Ewan'ite (Kalin Kato)]

hrh that article about the frog legs is awesome 

and the videos as well My sister told me about the gummy bear one, it was done in her class   

[Tsäroltxe te Eyrutì Tantse'itan]

That poor gummy bear! I think he did not survive.

Awesome stuff.