With over 6000 species throughout the world, frogs are the most plentiful type of amphibians on our planet. Frogs are cold-blooded animals with peculiar characteristics of both fish and reptiles, such as having gilled, aquatic larvae and air-breathing adults.

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• A frog is an amphibian.
• There are over 5000 frog species found in the world.
• Frogs breathe through their nostrils.
• Some frogs can jump over 20 times of their own body height.
• Frogs do not need to drink water as they absorb it through their skin.
• The frog’s colorful skin acts as a caution to predators that these frogs may be poisonous.
• The study of frogs is called Herpetologists.
• An ear of the frog is called tympanum and it is located just behind the eye.
• Frogs sleep with their open eyes.
• Each frog species has a distinct croak.
• Frogs swallow their food using their eyes.
• There is a frog in Indonesia that has no lungs.
• A group of toads is called a ‘knot’.
• The world’s biggest frog is the Goliath frog.
• There is another type of poison dart frog called the blue-jeans frog.
• A group of frogs is called an ‘army’.
• The Ornate Horned is the most aggressive frog.
• Frogs cannot live in the sea or any salt water.
• Frogs have a sticky tongue and use its muscular tongue to catch and swallow food.
• Frogs hibernate in the winter time.
• The golden dart frog’s skin could kill up to 1,000 people.
• Frog legs are eaten by humans in many parts of the world.
• In warmer water, the eggs of frogs grow faster.
• There are two frogs in the world that have tails, the coastal tailed frog and the mountain tailed frog.
• Every type of frog makes its own special sound.

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