A Quick Reminder in Seconds In Part One of this three-part series, we encountered the remarkable story of a toad photographed by a Canadian photojournalist in 1992. The animal was so unusual that many people initially suspected the photograph was a hoax or practical joke. The toad appeared to have no visible eye sockets; instead, both eyes seemed to be embedded in the roof of its mouth. The extraordinary image soon spread across Canada and the United States and later appeared in scientific publications and popular science books. In Part Two we explored the developmental biology behind this astonishing abnormality