Diazepam (Valium, Diastat, Acudial, Diastat Pediatric, Diazepam Intensol) is a drug used for the short-term relief of symptoms related to anxiety disorders; and symptoms that result from alcohol withdrawal.
A file photo of a Gastric-Brooding Frog. Researchers are trying to clone the frog, which has been extinct since 1983. The frog gives birth through its mouth. ( Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts) Researchers are trying hard to bring one of the world's weirdest, and undoubtedly coolest, frogs back to life. The Gastric-brooding frog became extinct in the mid-1980's. It was native to a small portion of Queensland Australia and, here's what makes it so interesting, it gave birth through its mouth. The gastric-brooding frog is the only known frog to give birth through its mouth. According to researchers at the University of South Wales, the frog lays eggs but then swallows them. The eggs are coated in a substance called prostaglandin which causes the frog to stop producing gastric acid in its stomach so the eggs will be safe in her stomach.
Wordsmith, world-builder, author. Foot and mouth, or hoof and mouth, disease is caused by a picornavirus. Cloven-footed animals catch and carry this disease - also, oddly enough, hedgehogs and elephants! Humans do not get foot and mouth disease - they do get something called HAND, foot, and mouth disease. It is caused by a coxsackievirus.