When rain falls and water is plentiful, the sex lives of plains spadefoot toads are pretty, well, plain. Females prowl ponds for the suitor with the most winsome call; they pair off to couple, ...
Tree toads likely evolved to give live birth because they don't live near water. A frog’s lifecycle is likely one of the earliest bits of science that many of us remember learning. They start as eggs, ...
Q. Last year, you provided facts about salamanders. What can you tell us about frogs and toads? How are they different from other animals? What makes them special? A. Salamanders, although abundant in ...
Both frogs and toads need water to survive.  Both species lay their eggs in water and their eggs hatch into tadpoles.  Tadpoles cannot survive in open air. The differences in frogs and toads ...
Most frogs lay eggs that hatch into tadpoles, but high in Tanzania’s misty mountain forests, a group of toads has abandoned this amphibian tradition entirely. Scientists have just described three new ...
Scientists have newly described three extraordinary species of tree toad that leapfrog over the egg-to-tadpole stage. The females give birth on land to dozens of toadlets, each measuring just a few ...
As you'll know if you've been following Tet Zoo for any length of time, I've been slowly working my way through the toads of the world for the past few years - yes, all of them, more or less. As is ...
Battle to save Colorado high-country toads goes microbial with ground-breaking Purple Rain treatment
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BROWNS CREEK WATERFALL — Thousands of 1-inch black boreal toad tadpoles this week wriggled into a high alpine bog beneath mountain peaks, seemingly pristine ...
Q. Last year you provided facts about salamanders. What can you tell us about frogs and toads? How are they different from other animals? What makes them special? A. Salamanders, although abundant in ...
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