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See Fantastic Frogs in 15 Fun Photographs
While some frogs call the great outdoors on six continents (excluding Antarctica) home, others are domesticated, kept as pets ...
Surinam horned frogs achieve their enormous girth by being generally indiscriminate about what they eat. Typical ambush predators, they squeeze their bodies into the forest substrate or leaf ...
These iconic rain-forest amphibians sleep by day stuck to leaf-bottoms with their eyes closed ... Many of the animals that eat red-eyed tree frogs are nocturnal hunters that use keen eyesight ...
Suctioned to a leaf bottom in the rainforests of South and Central America, glass frogs seem to vanish in plain sight—the transparent skin of their undersides erasing the hard edges of their ...
A once critically endangered species of leaf frog has made a comeback. NIH’s plan to reduce indirect funds faced immense backlash from researchers. A federal judge ruled to extend the halt to cuts ...
White-lined leaf litter toads live near mountain streams at elevations ... breeds in April because they found a pregnant female frog around that time. Thousands of new species are found each ...