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This is to help people with frog or toad. Most of these ways to distinguish the two work well but there are still some toads that look like frogs and vice versa. Tips that work One of the best ways to tell if its a frog or a toad is to look for a parotoid… Continue reading Help with Frog or Toad

Spring time is here and that means that male frogs and toads are coming out to try to find a mate. There are many ways that frogs try to attract the females and I will explain them. photo by United States Department of Agriculture The most common way frogs and toad attract mates is with… Continue reading Sexual Selection in Frogs and Toads

Frogs and toads have a variety of different lifestyles. Most people think frogs just live near the water but there is more than that. Suriname Toad (Pipa pipa) Aquatic There are many frogs that spend most of their lives in the water. The family Pipidae contains many fully aquatic species of frogs and toads. The Surinam… Continue reading Different Lifestyles of Frogs and Toads

Sad! This is a toad fish. It can easily be confused with actual toads because of its name and that it looks like one but its actually a fish. Wow. The legs are actually their fins which they use to walk across the bottom of the ocean. Fake news media tries to tell us this… Continue reading Fake Toad Alert

Researchers have found a species of frog that hasn't been seen since 1970. The frog is the Sierra Juarez brook frog, Duellmanohyla ignicolor. The researchers were surveying the genus Duellmanohyla in Mexico when they found the frog that hasn't been seen in 50 years near La Esperanza, Santiago Comaltepec, Oaxaca. They only found three individuals… Continue reading Sierra Juarez brook frog (Duellmanohyla ignicolor) found after not being seen for 50 years

TCU's sports teams are named the horned frogs but they don't mean the real horned frogs like this:  These horned frogs are from the family Ceratophyridae. The REAL horned frogs. They are referring to the lizard species! Sad! The genus Phrynosoma are referred to as horned lizards, horned toads, and horned frogs because people are dumb. Notice… Continue reading TCU Horned Frogs are fake frogs! Sad!

The Spotted Tree Frog, Litoria spenceri, is a critically endangered frog species found in Australia in the Southeastern States of Victoria and New South Wales. Chytrid fungus, habitat destruction, and introduction of the trout species have decimated the frog populations. Dr. David Hunter,a Senior Threatened Species Officer from the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage,… Continue reading Spotted Tree Frog Re-introduced to Kosciuszko National Park are doing great

National Park Service researchers found something amazing last week in a stream in the Santa Monica Mountains. They found egg masses of the threatened California Red Legged Frog, Rana draytonii. Why is this amazing? Its the first evidence of the frog breeding in the mountains since scientists have started to trans-locate them to the mountains.… Continue reading Rare Species found breeding in the Santa Monica Mountains for the first time

Endangered Frogs and Toads Found in the United States These are the native frogs and toads of the United States that are listed on the endangered species list. The Llanero Coqui (Eleutherodactylus juanariveroi) is found in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is known for its Coqui frogs and this species is the smallest. Habitat lose, pollution,… Continue reading Endangered Frogs and Toads of the US

Dr Edgar Lehr and Dr Rudolf von May were surveying the mountains of central Peru a few years back when they came across a new species of frog. They named it Attenborough’s rubber frog, Pristimantis attenboroughi, after David Attenborough the naturalist from tv shows Planet Earth, Life, Blue Planet, and more. The frog itself is really… Continue reading New Frog Species Named after David Attenborough