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Fun Frog and Toad Facts: Why Frogs Sing, Have Spots or Stripes, and Other Tidbits
A fun-filled article about frogs includes frog teeth, frog tongues, frog tracks, leap frog and frog trivia, plus many other interesting facts about frogs.
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The Characteristics of Frogs and Toads
"Theories pass. The frog remains." (Jean Rostand)
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FROGS; Everyone a Prince or Princess
You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find a prince. NOT! Actually, if you’re a gardener they are all princes. Or princess’ as the case may be.
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"It Isn't Easy Being Green," <i>Kermit the Frog</i>: Frogs, Part
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Classic Picture Book Series
Children love to read books that come in series. These classic authors have created sequential tales featuring a host of memorable animal characters.
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Themes in the Heartland
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Is a Toad a Frog?
Frogs and toads are not completely alike, but both are amphibians that belong to the same order, and have several differences that set them apart from one another.
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2003 Tony Awards
What to expect from this year's Tony award telecast.
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Citizen Science in Your Neighborhood: Project Frogwatch
Frogs and amphibians around the world are dying off in record numbers. The USGS needs your help to collect the data!
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Mini Poster Class Amphibia
These make great additions to a science notebook as well. A fun way to learn about frogs and toads.
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The Hops and Jumps of it: Toads and Frogs
Frogs and toads are colorful, valuable and harmless inhabitants of forests, prairies, rivers, swamps and marshes, and together make up a group of amphibians called anurans. But, is there a major difference between frogs and toads?
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"It Isn't Easy Being Green," <em>Kermit the Frog</em>: Frogs - P

Fairytales From Around the World
Fairy tales are universal. Why can't adults take on the acceptance of children?
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Cane Toads Threatened by Predatory Meat Ants
The invasive cane toad may have met its match in Northern Australia with the discovery that meat ants (Iridomyrmex species ) can overpower and eat juvenile toads.
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The Characteristics of Amphibians
Amphibians are fishes out of water leading what amounts to a double existence. This duality is acknowledged even in their scientific name - Gr. amphi, dual + bios, life.
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The Characteristics of Caecilians
Lurking on or in the floor of tropical forests are the most unusual of all the amphibians-the legless caecilians.
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The Characteristics of Salamanders
"Salamander - borne in the sun-kissed flame. Who was it lit your candle and branded you with your name?" (Lyrics from the Jethro Toll song "Salamander")
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Unearthing the red-backed salamander
Every summer we find red-backed salamanders (<i>Plethodon cinereus</i> under logs and stones. This plain and common species, though easily overlooked, bears some startling characteristics.
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Wildlife in Grand Canyon
The Grand Canyon holds many species animals that may be seen by people floating the Colorado, hiking into the gorge, and even by those who remain on the rim.
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Why Did the Turtle Cross the Highway?
England has for years made it easier for small animals - reptiles and amphibians in particular - to cross asphalt roads. Why not here? Read about how hard a turtle has it in the world.
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Wildlife Safari
Autumn is now well and truly here, but there is much to enjoy in this very special season. In the mellow, golden light of dying summer we can enjoy the garden in a new way. I have been making a wildlife safari in my garden. Join me and learn how you can make your garden a place of wonder and inspiration with the help of mother nature.
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Chorus of Spring Peepers
Beauty is in the ear of the beholder. Mating songs and Spring go together, but the season is not really complete until you have sat at night and listened to a chorus of Spring Peepers.
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Ear muscles-1
Our ear has tiny skeletal muscles performing specific functions.
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Garden Snakes: How to Attract Garter and Grass Snakes to Your Yard
Some gardens are fortunate enough to have snakes. Tips for keeping one of your most interesting reptilian neighbors around.
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Life Cycle of Frogs
Frogs are members of the 'Amphibia' class of animals: cold-blooded vertebrates (animals with backbones), which spend part of their life on water and part on land.
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Make a Frog House and More on Fruits and Seeds
Enjoy Spring by learning about gardening! Learn to make a frog house and learn how to increase vegetable production.
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Strange Books for the Traveler
Every traveler knows that their car collects lots of insect remains. They can also observe dead animals along the roadside. These books will help them identify the critters they see.
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Cabbage Looper
Cabbage loopers can destroy your brassicas as well as other plants in a matter of a day or two. If you can prevent them, that is best, but if you find yourself looking at these pests in your garden, check out this article for ways to get rid of them.
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Learning about Frogs
Come learn about frogs with your kids and have a great time. Check out these books, crafts, games, music, and websites for ideas on how you can teach your kids about frogs.
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Read Alouds to Young ESL children
Young children like stories read to them especially by their parents. Bring some life into the reading of the book and a child's ESL vocabulary will grow rapidly.
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Skin - The Wonderwrap - 10
Have you heard of an animal with cellulose in its skin? Yes, cellulose ..welcome to read special features of skins of various animals.
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Sound producing muscles in animals
Delicate muscles like of vocal cords help animals make sound and communicate love, distress, fear, aggression etc.
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The Best of Spring in the United Kingdom
After months of cold and darkness dominating winter the United Kingdom wakes again in the spring, as people, plants and animals emerge to colour the new warmth and light.
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Trailside Museum of Natural History
The Trailside Museum of Natural History in River Forest, Illinois is a nature education center within the Forest Preserve District of Cook County.
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Amphibians I
The amphibians are an interesting group of animals that often get overlooked.
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Animal Classification
Taxonomy is the science of animal classification and of working out what is related to what. How does Suite101 categorise the millions of species that exist?
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Listening to the Lotus
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Origins and Structure of Cockney Rhyming Slang
This particular feature of East End slang is like a clever word game, and has even infiltrated the colloquial British English lexicon.
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Spring Ski Resort Events: Rockies
At ski resorts nationwide, warm weather and longer days add up to unending soft snow and non-stop skiing and snowboarding special events.
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What Are Strange Rains?
Throughout history, many people have witnessed rainfalls of animals and other odd things falling from the sky. Scientists still have no answers.
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White Tailed Kite
White Tailed Kites, a medium sized hawk stand almost fifteen inches tall as an adult and has a wingspan of 3 1/2 feet. The feathers on this raptor displays a white face, chin, throat, breast and stomach. The kite has brown stripes on its white chest. Also the undersides of the wings are white.
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Amphibians as biological indicator
Why is the decline of amphibians so important?
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Backyard Bullfrog Gunk
frogs, backyard ponds, backyard wildlife, bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana
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Critter Ridder
A big part of organic gardening is embracing and encouraging biodiversity...even if that means taking the high road with some creatures we'd just as soon do without.
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The Night Has A Thousand Peepers
Jeepers creepers! What about those peepers? Eastern Massachusetts has only one tree frog! Talk about getting ripped off. (Oh, well: this ain't Florida.)
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone? On Daylilies and Woodchucks
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Wildlife and Gardens - Part 1
Spring is a time of garden crawling as winter's debris are removed and early weeds given a swift pull. Garden crawling brings the gardener's eye right down to plant and earth level so it's easy to observe the activity of normally invisible residents as they go about their business of turning plant debris into humus.
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Visiting the Washington National Zoo
Traveling to Washington, DC, with children? Your kids may like the museums and monuments, but they'll love the Washington Zoo.
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