One of the most common question people ask about frogs and toads is  "What is the difference between Frogs and Toads?"
    Most are surprise to hear that all Toads are actually Frogs!!
 

FROGS	TOADS
Smooth, moist skin Have long legs for jumping Have small teeth like fish teeth Have to stay near the water to keep their skin moist.	Rough, dry skin. Have short legs for hopping Do not have any teeth Can venture further from the water.  These are the ones you usually find in your yard

A hibernating frog needs so little oxygen that it breathes through its skin

Frogs cannot live in the sea or any salt water.

The eyes and nose of a frog are on top of its head so it can breathe and see when most of its body is under the water.

There are more than 4,000 types of amphibian in the world,  but Europe only has 45 species.

Frogs absorb water through their skin so they don't need to drink.

Frogs can lay as many as 4,000 eggs in frog spawn.

Common frogs vary in size depending on where they live.  The biggest frog is in the Scottish Highlands.

Certain frogs can jump up to 20 times their own body length in a single leap.

People who study frogs and toads are called herpetologist.  Herpetology is the study of amphibians and reptiles.

At first it was thought that frogs could not throw up, but then it was discovered.  It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.  The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth.  The frog then uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

Because frogs come out in the rain people used to think that they fell to earth in the rain and in the nineteenth century England's people tried catching them to prove it.

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