What it eats: Fish, crustaceans, mollusks, frogs, insects, birds ... spend 95% of their lives completely motionless, buried under mud or sand in shallow rivers with only their eyes and snorkel ...

a purple frog described as the “coelacanth of frogs”. Why? Because it stemmed from an ancient lineage that was wriggling around in the mud when dinosaurs were still alive. With a bloated body ...

Surinam horned frogs achieve their enormous girth by being ... When anything smaller than their own bodies happens by, they spring from the mud and swallow their prey whole, locking it in their ...

Cold-blooded frogs freeze in the mud then thaw out Beginning in October, toads and frogs burrow under leaves, logs and mud. When it gets cold, the cold-blooded creatures literally freeze ...

The relict leopard frog has the dubious distinction of being one of the first North American amphibians thought to have become extinct. Although the species was known to have inhabited more than 60 ...