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Aug 11, 2011 · Fungus Sex Is Threat to Frogs. (Image credit: Vance T. Vredenburg, UC Berkeley) A mountain yellow-legged frog (Rana muscosa) at Milestone Basin in Sequoia National Park.
- 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...
- The Faceless Toad. In 2018, researchers walked around a Connecticut forest. They were on a mission to gather information about newts. Instead, they bumped into a freaky toad.
- They Inspired Frankenstein. During the 18th century, an Italian doctor named Luigi Galvani electrocuted frog legs. When they moved, everybody got excited.
- Eyes Inside Frog’s Mouth. One day, two Canadian girls discovered a toad without eyes. However, a local journalist noticed that it seemed more aware of everything after its mouth opened.
- Buffalo Buffet. In northern Turkey, water buffalo roam the wetlands and pick up frogs as far as they go. Clever marsh frogs figured out that the hairy beasts attract flies.
Apr 26, 2019 · Image: Martin Grimm, Flickr. The Fantastic Four have 'Invisible Woman' … amphibians have Hyperolius pusillus. Water-lily reed frogs might be common, but their incredibly well-adapted camouflage...
Jan 10, 2015 · Freaky find: Herpetologist Jim McGuire was in for a surprise when he picked up one of these Indonesian fanged frogs and found it had just given birth to a handful of live tadpoles. (Image...
Mar 22, 2021 · From burrowing in the soil to popping baby frogs out of their backs, the frogs in this list have some very strange habits.
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