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the only creature that can drink, breathe, and sometimes see through its own skin
means A small, smooth-skinned amphibian with long hind legs built for leaping, no tail as an adult, and a famously croaking voice, usually living in or near water.
from From Old English 'frogga,' a relative of words across the Germanic family — Old Norse 'froskr,' German 'Frosch' — all probably tracing back to a root meaning something like 'to jump,' which is the most frog thing imaginable. The same family gave us 'frog in the throat' (that hoarse croak) and, much later, the unkind nickname for the French, tied to their fondness for frogs' legs.
- frozen alive
- Some species freeze solid in winter, then thaw and hop off
- throat eyes
- Frogs use their eyeballs to push food down
- glass bellies
- Glass frogs have transparent skin revealing their organs
- skin breathing
- They absorb oxygen straight through their skin
- ancient hoppers
- Frogs have croaked on Earth for 200 million years
goliath frog — largest frog species, up to 32 cm long, found in cameroon and equatorial guinea
poison dart frog — golden poison frog contains enough toxin to kill 10 humans, amazon rainforest
axolotl — critically endangered mexican salamander that retains juvenile features into adulthood