Top 15 Amazing Facts About Frogs

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Today we will know about the top 15 amazing facts about frogs. Yes most of us do not know about these facts which are really fascinating.

Here they are:

1. Frogs can absorb water through their skin, therefore, they don't need to drink.
2. Frogs can lay as many as 4,000 eggs in frog spawn.
3. The eyes and nose of a frog are on the top of its head so it can breathe and see when most of its body is under the water.
4. Certain frogs can jump up to 20 times their own body length in a single leap.
5. Frogs usually eat meat (bugs and worms) and swallow their food whole.
6. The world's biggest frog is the goliath frog from Cameroon in West Africa. Their body can be one-foot long.
7. The smallest frogs in the world are less than half-an-inch long.
8. People who study frogs and toads are called herpetologists. Herpetology is the study of amphibians and reptiles.
9. Frog bones form a new ring every year when the frog is hibernating, just like trees do. Scientists can count these rings to discover the age of the frog.
10. One type of desert frog can wait as long as seven years for water by surrounding itself in a type of transparent bag that becomes its first meal once the rain comes.
11. The golden dart frog is the most poisonous frog on earth and the skin of one frog could kill up to 1,000 people.
12. A painkiller with 200 times the power of morphine has been found in the skin of a frog.
13. The male Darwins Frog takes its mate's eggs into its mouth as soon as they show signs of life and they stay there until they emerge as fully grown froglets.
14. Frogs cannot live in the sea or any salt water.
15. There are more than 4,000 types of amphibians in the world, but Europe has very few--only 45 species.

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