1. A frog in Brazil eats fruit.
2. Waxy tree frogs create a waxtike cocoon around their bodies to survive dry spells.
3. A group of frogs is called an army; a group af toads is called a knot.
4. Australian tree frogs create a range of smells, from rotting meat to roasted cashews to thyme leaves,
5. The ornate horned frog can eat a mouse in one swallow,
6. In dry, hot weather, the spatulate-nosed tree frog crawis into a hole and uses the tip of its alligator-shaped head to plug up the hiding spot.
7. It's impossible for turtles to stick out their tongues,
8. Frogs shed their skin about once a week and then eat it.
9. The goliath bullfrog can cover nearly ten feet (3 m) in one hop.
10. You can't get warts from frogs or toads.
11. Salamanders can't hear sounds, so they don't make any.,
12. Threatened ribbed newts can squeeze their muscles and force their sharp rib tips through their skin, piercing any unlucky predator.
13. Before a rainstorm, spadefoot toads come out by the hundreds and croak a call that sounds like"rain today."
14. Horned toads aren't toads at all, they're lizards.
15. More Americans die each year from bee stings than from snake bites,
16. The tiny dwarf gecko is less than an inch (2.5 cm) long.
17. Snakes swallow prey headfirst,
18. A snake stops eating about two weeks before it sheds its skin.
19. Alligators have U-shaped snouts, crocodiles have V-shaped snouts.
20. Sea turtles can sense Earth's magnetic field.and they use this sense in combination with others to orient themselves.
21. Dinosaurs were not reptiles but were related to them.
22. Amphiblans first appeared on Earth about 300 million years ago, about 70 million years before dinosaurs.
23. A snake doesn't have taste buds on its tongue; instead, its taste receptors are in pits in the roof of its mouth. It flicks its tongue in and out to bring chemicals from the air back to the pit.
24. The lizardlike tuatara may breathe as seldom as once per hour while resting during the day.
25. Tortoises are turtles that live on land.
26. ATl turtles lack teeth and instead have a sharp beak.
27. A turtle's ribs are fused to its shell.
28. Al turtles, even those that live in the sea, lay eggs on land. 29. The geometric plates on a turtle's shell are called scutes.
30. The all- gator snapping turtle, the world's largest freshwater turtle, weighs more than Loggerhead Sea Turtle 220 pounds (100o kg) and has scissor-sharp jaws.
31. Loggerhead turtles are named for heads, which are equipped with jaws that can crush lobsters.
32. Galápagos tortoises can weigh more than 550 pounds (249.5 kg) and live to be more than 100 years old,
33. The stinkpot turtle gets its name from a foul odor released as a defense.
34. The four-eyed frog has only their large, powerful two eyes, but it rear.
35. South American bulifrogs let out a loud shriek when grabbed by predators, which startles the predators inta letting go of the frogs.
36. The paradoxical frog is named for its odd trait: Tadpoles of the species grow to be about four times longer than adults.
37. When threatened, the European common toad stands on tiptoe to appear larger.
38. The marine toad has poisonous glands covering its body that release a toxin that can kil predators in as little as 15 minutes,
39. Most tree frogs have sticky pads on their toes that help them ching to surfaces,
40. The world's largest frog, the goliath bullfrog, grows as long as 16 inches (40 cm) but can't make a sound-it lacks a vocal sac.
41. In most frog species, the females are larger than the males.
42. The world's smallest lizard can fit on a dime.
43. Abah River flying frogs don't have wings, but the webbing between their toes acts as a parachute that lets the frogs gide fröm tree to tree.
44. Most burrowing frogs dig backward, using their hind feet. ars to have four thanks to two black-and-white, eyelike spots on its 28
45. African bulifrogs will stay underground for vears at a time waiting for hejuy caink,
46. Pit vipers and some boas and pythons une ergans on their face called heat pits to detect small changes in air temperatiura produied bo t+he hresence of other animals,
47- A snake's eyes are covered withra trainsparent scale that's replaced when the snake sheds its skin
48. A snake has up to 400 vertehrae along its back ; human has 26.
49. A haby snake can be up to seven times longer than its egg when it hatches Ro,
50.Snakds keen their eggs warm by coiling on top of them and shivering to generate heat.
51. Boas use their tails to hang from tree limbs while snatchino izards hirds and mammals from Jower branches
52. Both ends of a rubber boa Jook like a head, so when threatened, the snake coile into a bull auit valsus its tall to distract oredaters froo ita real head.
53. The 550-pound (250 kg) anaconda is the world's heaviest snake its body is strong enough to constrict an animal the size of a horse.
54. The python is the world's longest snake, stretching 33 feet (10 m).
55. The Arafura file snake, which loks ike an elephant's trunk, has rough skin that helps the aquatic snake grip fish.
56.The common egg-eating snake gobbles up whole egas; spikes on the snake's buckbone throat.
57. The Aesculapian snake is named after the Greek god of medicine and appears coiled around a staff on the medical profession symbol.
58. The Mozambique spitting cobra sprays its victims with painful, blinding venom,
59. All sea snakes are highly poisnnous.
60. The blast ba, which can grow to be 11 feet (3.5 m) long, can slither as fast as 13.5 miles per hour (20 kph),
61. A threatened king cobra, the longest veriomous snake, ralses the front third of its body off the ground so that it stands up to five feet 15 m) tall.
62. The adder tives in extremely cold climates, in cluding the Arctic, where the snake hibernates for up to elght months of the vear,
63. A ráttlesnake's rattle gains a segment each time the snaka sheds its skin,
64. The loose flap of skin under a lizard's head is called a dewlap,
65. Chameleons change color mainly to adjust their temparature darker skin absorbs more suni, warming the lizards-or to communicate with other members of their species.
66. Flying lizards sat treie tre to tree with the aid of "wings," which are really skin flans stretched between long ribs.
67. Marine iguanas are the only lizarás that forage for through the shell once it passs into the snaka's food in the sea; they dive to depths of 39 feet (12 m) and can stay underwater for more than an hour
68. The plumed basitskia kind of izarA,cm Tun üpright on its hind legs acrass standing water,
69. The Mexican beaded lizard and North America's Gila monster are the world's unily poison ous lizards, but their bite is rarely fatal to humans.
70. Komodo dragons can smell dead anfmals-a favorite food-up to thiree miter (s ka) away.
71. Glass lizards and legless lizards, which look like snakes, lack legs but have very long tails.
72. teckos writhout eyelds ta thair tongus to lick their eyeballs clean.
73.The three-foot-tall (0.9 m) sand monitor lizard uses its long, muscular tali to stand on its hind legs and have a look around.
74. Chameleons' toes are fused into two opposite facing groups that help the lizards grip slender branches.
75. Amphisbaenians ilve underground and look like worms but are related to lizards.
76. Nile crocodilas can kill prey as large as water buffalo and vwrildebenst.7-Creco- dilians-crocodiles, alligators, caimans, and gharials-have a flap of skin at the back of their mouth that closes when the reptiles are underwater to keep water out of their lungs.
78. All crocodilians have a powerful bite but can't chew-instead, they swallow whole chunks ripped from prey.
79. The world's largest. crocodilian is the saltwater croc, which can grow to 23 feet (7 m) and weigh more than i ton (0.9 MT),
80.Crocs lin around with their mouths open to cool off.
81. On the tip of a mele gharial's long, slender snout is a bump the crocudilian uses to make sounds and bubbles.
82. Some land-dwelling salamanders lack lungs and instead breathe through their skin, mouth, and throat.
83. Sirens, a kind of eel-tiké amphibian, breathe through lungs and external gills on the sides of the rieck that resemble a feather boa
84. The 4.5 foot (14-m) Japanese giant salamander can live for more than 50 years.
85. Female great crested newts lay dozens or hundreds of eggs and wrap them-individually, or in groups of two or three-in leaves for protection.
86. The sticky slime from a stimy salamander takes several days to wash off.
87. Caecilians. limbless, wormlike amphibians are rarely seen because they live either underground or underwater.
88. Unlike frogs and toads, newts and sala- manders keep their talls as adults.
89. Frogs and toads have four digits on their forelegs, five on their hind legs.
90. When swallowing food, frogs and toads shut their eyes, which rolls the eyeballs downward and creates more pressure in the mouth, meaning fewer swallows to fintsh a meal.
91. Frogs live on every continent except Antarctica.
92. The quarter-sized caqui frog makes a sound like its name: "CO-KEE!"
93- A kind of frog that lives near noisy waterfalls dances instead of croaks.
94. If your tongue were as long as a frog's, it would reach your bellybutton.
95. The smallest known frog is the size of a person's fingernail.
96. Tadpoles are baby frogs adapted for life in the water: They use gills to breathe and tails to swim.
97. In the Florida Everglades, pet Burmese pythons released into the wild constrict and eat alligators.
98. A crocodile can't move Its tongue-it's attached to the bottom of the croc's mouth.
99. A type of thread snake found on the Caribbean island of Barbados is the small- est known serpent in the world-it's as thin as a spaghetti noodle and about as long as a computer mouse.
100. Komodo dragons, which weigh on average about 155 pounds (70 kg), can eat up to half their veeight fn a single meal.
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