Frogs are animals with distinctive green color, even though sometimes you can find frogs with other colors as well
Frogs are small animals that are not so beautiful… Let’s find out more about them!
- Frogs are amphibious.
- The oldest fossil “proto-frog” appeared in the early Triassic of Madagascar.
- Molecular clock dating suggests their origins may extend further back to the Permian.
- This happened 265 million years ago.
- One gram of the toxin produced by the skin of the golden poison dart frog could kill 100,000 people.
- The female Surinam toad lays up to 100 eggs.
- After 12 to 20 weeks, fully formed young toads emerge by pushing out through the membrane covering the toad’s back.
- There is a frog in Indonesia that has no lungs.
- It breathes entirely through its skin.
- When Darwin’s frog tadpoles hatch, a male frog swallows the tadpoles.
- He keeps the tiny amphibians in his vocal sac for about 60 days to allow them to grow.
- After that, he proceeds to cough up tiny, fully formed frogs.
- The most “famous” frog is the one that is kissed by the Disney’s princess.
- The glass frog has translucent skin.
- So this is why you can see its internal organs.
- The waxy monkey frog secretes a wax from its neck.
- This wax is used by its legs to rub that wax all over its body.
- The wax prevents the skin of the frog from drying out in sunlight.
- Most frogs have teeth.
- Normally they only have teeth on their upper jaw.
- The teeth are used to hold prey in place until the frog can swallow it.
- There’s a type of poison dart frog called the blue-jeans frog.
- This kind of frog has a red body with blue legs.
- It is also sometimes called the strawberry dart frog.
- There are over 5,000 species of frog worldwide.
- Frogs don’t need to drink water as they absorb it through their skin.
- In Egypt, the frog is the symbol of life and fertility.
- In ancient Egyptian mythology Heget is a frog-goddess who represents fertility.
- Some frogs can jump over 20 times their own body length.
- Frogs can be heard a mile away.
