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Here's lots of stuff about frogs! You can see pictures of frogs, find out what kinds of frogs live in Minnesota, hear what their calls sound like, print out pages to color and learn lots about frogs!

• Did You Know? Weird stuff about frogs.
• What Kind of Frogs Live in Minnesota? See what they look like and hear their spring calls.
• Color! Print out coloring book pages of frogs!
• What's Happening to Our Frogs?
• Where Else Can You Learn About Frogs?
• Deformed Frogs Photos
• Frogs: Hot Topic
• Creature of the Month: the Leopard Frog

Frogs absorb water through their skin so they don't need to drink. Frogs can lay as many as 4,000 eggs in frogspawn. The eyes and nose of a frog are on top of its head so it can breathe and see when most of its body is under the water. Frogs need both water and land to live. A frog can change the color of its skin depending on its surroundings. Frogs have long back legs and webbed feet for jumping and swimming. Certain frogs can jump up to 20 times their own body length in a single leap. Frogs usually eat meat (bugs and worms) and swallow their food whole. The world's biggest frog is the goliath frog from Cameroon in West Africa. Their body can be one-foot long. The smallest frogs in the world are less than half-an-inch long. The eggs of the marsupial frog are laid in a brood pouch on the mothers back and the young hatch out in a zipper-like fashion from the pouch. In the Seychelles, there is a male frog that carries its young around on its back until they become adults. Research has shown that Ammonium Nitrate (a fertilizer) can cause agonizing death for frogs. This fertilizer is spread on fields in the spring when frogs are migrating. Frogs suffer a massive toxic attack if they come in contact with it. Asian tree frogs build nests in trees over water so when their tadpoles hatch, they drop directly into the water. People who study frogs and toads are called herpetologists. Herpetology is the study of amphibians and reptiles. Frog bones form a new ring every year when the frog is hibernating, just like trees do. Scientists can count these rings to discover the age of the frog. The wax frog retains moisture in dry weather by producing wax from its skin and coating itself in it. Because frogs come out in the rain, people used to think that they fell to earth in the rain! And in nineteenth century England, people tried catching them to prove it. One type of desert frog can wait as