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Furie created the anthropomorphic amphibian character Pepe the Frog around 2004, [6] first appearing as a character in his zine Play Time in single-pane comics created using Microsoft Paint. [3] [7] The character was a "peaceful frog-dude" with three animal roommates. [8] He posted the comic in a series of blog posts on Myspace in 2005.
The origins of the word frog are uncertain and debated. [11] The word is first attested in Old English as frogga, but the usual Old English word for the frog was frosc (with variants such as frox and forsc), and it is agreed that the word frog is somehow related to this.
Pepe the Frog (/ ˈ p ɛ p eɪ / PEP-ay) is a comic character and Internet meme created by cartoonist Matt Furie. Designed as a green anthropomorphic frog with a humanoid body, Pepe originated in Furie's 2005 comic Boy's Club . [ 2 ]
These portraits feature a variety of exotic frogs in their natural environment.From delicate textures to bold patterns, each of his photos highlights the fascinating diversity of frog species ...
The pickerel frog's poisonous secretions cannot stop all creatures; green frogs, bull frogs, northern water snakes, eastern ribbon snakes, and common garter snakes are their usual predators. [22] When threatened, pickerel frogs will jump into the water and dive to the bottom to escape predators like birds and snakes.
The tawny frogmouth was first described in 1801 by the English naturalist John Latham. [4] Its specific epithet is derived from Latin strix 'owl' and oides 'form'. Tawny frogmouths belong to the frogmouth genus Podargus, which includes the two other species of frogmouths found within Australia, the marbled frogmouth and the Papuan frogmouth. [5]
When The New York Times reported on these services in 2019, it noted that the National Service Animal Registry—the same operation that registered LaHart's tree frog as a service dog—listed ...
Paedophryne amauensis, also known as the New Guinea Amau frog, is a species of microhylid frog endemic to eastern Papua New Guinea. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] At 7.7 mm (0.30 in) in snout-to-vent length , it was once considered the world's smallest known vertebrate .