Top 10 Facts About Frogs!

10) Frogs don’t actually drink water with their mouths; they drink it through their skin! It’s like sweating in reverse!
9) Frogs hibernate in the wintertime. That might sound wussy, but remember that bears hibernate too!
8) Frog fossils have been found in every continent except Antarctica.  Penguins are good at hiding fossils.
7) A frog completely sheds its skin about once a week. After it pulls off the old, dead skin, the frog usually eats it.
6) One gram of the toxin produced by the skin of the golden poison dart frog could kill 100,000 people. Dang!
5) Most frogs have teeth, some do not.
4) The biggest frog in the world is the Goliath frog. It can measure more than a foot in length and weigh more than 7 pounds!
3) Frogs never close their eyes, even when they sleep.
2) The smallest frog in the world is the Gold Frog.  Adult Gold frogs top out at 1 centimeter in length.
1) MAD HOPS! The longest jump ever recorded was 33.6 inches, at a South African frog derby.

 

 

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