Archive for the 'Amphibians' Category

Frog rescues another frog from a snake

This is a little long, but quite dramatic, and another frog actually does help rescue this frog from the snake!

Entirely New Type of Amphibians

Not a snake nor a legless lizard — and definitely not a worm. This is a caecilian — an entirely new family of amphibians!  Read more on the National Geographic website.  

World’s Smallest Lizard and Frog

These two have to hit 10 on the adorability meter… World’s Tiniest Chameleons Found in Madagascar | Popular Science.   This Newly Discovered Frog Is the World’s Smallest Vertebrate | Popular Science.

Frog Playing iPhone Game

Put a starving frog in front of video ants, and this is what you get.

Frog Feeding FAIL

Not sure where this came from, but I love it.

New Haven VT Cares for their Amphibians

A reader sent in this heart-warming story: Volunteers in New Haven, Vermont spend long hours at night helping newts, frogs, and salamanders cross the road safely, and are even hoping to arrange construction of little underpasses for creatures to safely pass under the roadway. This is awesome. People tend to forget that these are living [...]

Basement Toad

This toad lives in my friend’s basement, and has lived down there for years.  Sometimes we wonder if it ever gets lonely.

Bucket 'O' Toads

Summer nights in a small suburb of Tucson, Arizona, way back in 1967, out of my house would stalk a mighty hunter. Six years old, wearing shorts and a tee shirt, high-top tennis shoes, and carrying a flashlight, a bucket, and a butterfly net, I stalked off through the streets in search of prey. It [...]