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  2. Frog - Wikipedia

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    Little is known about the longevity of frogs and toads in the wild, but some can live for many years. Skeletochronology is a method of examining bones to determine age. Using this method, the ages of mountain yellow-legged frogs (Rana muscosa) were studied, the phalanges of the toes showing seasonal lines where growth slows in winter.

  3. Amphibian - Wikipedia

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    The granular poison frog (Oophaga granulifera) is typical of a number of tree frogs in the poison dart frog family Dendrobatidae. Its eggs are laid on the forest floor and when they hatch, the tadpoles are carried one by one on the back of an adult to a suitable water-filled crevice such as the axil of a leaf or the rosette of a bromeliad .

  4. List of Anuran families - Wikipedia

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    The archaeobatrachians are the most primitive of frogs. These frogs have morphological characteristics which are found mostly in extinct frogs, and are absent in most of the modern frog species. Most of these characteristics are not common between all the families of Archaeobatrachia, or are not absent from all the modern species of frogs.

  5. Endangered frog daddies transported 7,000 miles to ‘give ...

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    Eleven endangered male frogs that traveled 7,000 miles in a bid to save their species from extinction have “given birth” to 33 froglets at London Zoo. Endangered frog daddies transported 7,000 ...

  6. List of endangered amphibians - Wikipedia

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    35 to 148 are extinct or extinct in the wild: 33 extinct (EX) ... There are 914 frog species assessed as endangered. Water frogs ... Young itombwe forest treefrog ...

  7. American bullfrog - Wikipedia

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    The frogs are large, have powerful leaps, and inevitably escape after which they may wreak havoc among the native frog population. [49] Countries that export bullfrog legs include the Netherlands, Belgium, Mexico, Bangladesh, Japan, China, Taiwan, and Indonesia. Most of these frogs are caught in the wild, but some are raised in captivity.

  8. Portal:Frogs - Wikipedia

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    The oldest fossil "proto-frog" Triadobatrachus is known from the Early Triassic of Madagascar (250 million years ago), but molecular clock dating suggests their split from other amphibians may extend further back to the Permian, 265 million years ago. Frogs are widely distributed, ranging from the tropics to subarctic regions, but the greatest ...

  9. Pacific tree frog - Wikipedia

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    The Pacific tree frog (Pseudacris regilla), also known as the Pacific chorus frog, has a range spanning the Pacific Northwest, from Northern California, Oregon, and Washington to British Columbia in Canada and extreme southern Alaska. [2] They live from sea level to more than 10,000 feet in many types of habitats, reproducing in aquatic ...