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Aug 11, 2011 · An illustration of the giant Cretaceous-era frog, Beelzebufo ampinga, next to the largest living frog on Madagascar, the Mantydactylus ampinga.
Apr 26, 2019 · April 27 is Save the Frogs Day, and to celebrate, we've put together a Halloween-worthy lineup of some of the freakiest and most fascinating amphibians around. You can expect a display of jaws...
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- Characteristics
- List of Freaking-Looking Frogs
- Other Freak Looking Frogs
- Conclusion
They swallow with their eyelid’s help
The expression, his eyes are bigger than his stomach is applicable to some frogs. Their eyes become handy tools. They use their big eyeballs to swallow. When they catch prey in their mouths, they force it down, going down their throat by pulling their eyeballs down.
They have no eggs to hatch
A herpetologist named Jim McGuire found Indonesian fanged frogs that give birth to live tadpoles without the eggs. No eggs were found but tadpoles. Normally, frogs lay eggs; then, these eggs are hatched to tadpoles; however, this was not the case of the Indonesian frog.
They give birth out of their mouths
Image Source The gastric-brooding female frog lays eggs then the male frog fertilizes them by laying sperms on top of the eggs. Then, the female swallows the fertilized eggs. The eggs go down to the digestive system of the frog, where they are developed into froglets. Later, the female frog gives birth through her mouth.
1. Turtle Frog
Image Source The name is taken from how it looks. It is like a turtle without a shell. It has a plump and flat-shaped body, a flat nose, beady eyes, and stumpy short legs. On their legs, there are weird claws too, making them look freakier. This frog is found in Australia. Apart from its unique look, this frog uses its hind legs to dig forward and not backward.
2. Titicaca Water Frog
Image Source This is a funky looking type of frog. It is known for being one of the largest frogs in the water. It possesses too much skin amount. It has a flappy and sagging skin. This aids this frog’s respiration. Its skin absorbs oxygen from the water. It should not resurface when breathing air. This is found in the Lake Titicaca found in the borders of Bolivia and Peru.
3. Glass Frog
Image Source As their name implies, these frogs have transparent skin found on their abdomen. It has a see-through skin letting you see the organs inside. These frogs are found in Central and South America. The males protect the female’s eggs found on the leaf’s underside. Guarding continues until the eggs are hatched. Although these frogs got the best camouflage advantage, their eggs are wasps target as food, but these defend their eggs with their strong kicks.
1. Hairy Frog
It is also called the horror frog. It has a hairy look, which it uses as defense from predators. This frog breaks its tiny bone to come up with claws or small barbs. Its hair comes from its thighs and torso. It is 100% hair; in fact, they are dermal papillae having arteries to help the frogs absorb oxygen from the water. This dermal papilla is like external gills. Only breeding males have this.
2. Wallace’s Flying Frog
This is known as the gliding frog. It lives in Malaysia and Borneo. It grows 4 inches in white, yellow, and bright green. They have peculiar webbed feet with membranous loose skin in between their toes. This is the reason why it can glide. It can glide 50 feet.
3. Suriname Toad
As mentioned before, this frog looks perfectly as a leaf. It has no tongue, teeth but with tiny eyes and appendages in a star shape on the front toes. In addition, the eggs are laid on the female’s back.
In the world, there is a countless number of frogs. Most might not have been seen by many people. Some species look amazing for their colors and appearance, but it can be the other way around too. There are those who don’t look cute or as good as the others due to their unique or peculiar appearance, especially. They could look really horrible or s...
- Frogs don’t drink. Kermit lied to us. But that's none of my business. Or at least, not in the traditional sense. Instead of drinking through their mouths, frogs drink (and breathe) through their skin.
- Frogs swallow with their eyeballs. As if drinking through their bellies wasn’t weird enough, frogs also eat with their eyes. Frogs gulp down their prey whole, then push their eyeballs down into their mouth to force the food down their throats.
- Frogs turn into Frogsicles. What do Great Lakes frogs do in the winter? Do they just freeze and thaw in the spring? Just like bears and bats (but not beavers), many frogs hibernate by lowering their body temperatures, heart rates, and metabolisms.
- Bullfrogs eat everything and anything. Rusty Clark (Flickr: Link) Seriously, it’s horrifying. Fish, turtles, snakes, bats, and birds are all fair game as long as the bullfrog is big enough to overpower them.
- Purple Frog // Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis. The purple frog, native to India's Western Ghats, is also sometimes called the pignose frog. It spends all but two weeks of the year—monsoon season—more than 26 feet underground, feeding on termites and emerging only to mate.
- Black Rain Frog // Breviceps fuscus. Breviceps fuscus is often called the world's grumpiest frog. (In a funny twist, its cousin, Breviceps macrops, has actually been dubbed the world's cutest frog, thanks in part to the little squeaks it makes.)
- Surinam Toad // Pipa Pipa. Don't let its name fool you: This animal, found in South American rain forests, is actually considered an aquatic frog. Seven to 8 inches long, brown, and flat (in fact, it's one of the world's flattest amphibians), the Surinam toad blends in perfectly with muddy river bottoms.
- Hairy Frog // Trichobatrachus robustus. This frog is also sometimes called the horror frog, and for good reason: When threatened, it breaks its own toes to produce claws, which puncture its toe pads on its hind feet, and uses them as weapons.
Apr 3, 2024 · When the tiny bones in the frog’s fingers or toes are snapped they produce small barb-like claws that are sharp enough to deter a hungry predator. Fast Facts: Location: Central Africa; Size: up to 5 inches; Diet: Slugs, insects, beetles, spiders; What do you think of this “ware-frog with claws?” The Glass Frog
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Oct 12, 2010 · Here are just a few of the weirdest and most unusual frogs and toads: Tomato frog (D. antongilli) Tomato frog, photo courtesy of Charles Paddock Zoo, Atascadero, CA. This frog is definitely NOT green! Colored as red a ketchup, the Tomato frog’s bright color is meant to warn predators that it is not safe to eat.
