Doesn't seem like much until you see the incredible inefficiency of the desert rain frog waddle. “Its legs are paddle-like, it almost waddles across the sand like one of those wind-up swimming ...

The overachieving Wallace's flying frog wasn't content to just hop and swim. Thousands of years of watching birds navigate the rain forest and avoid predators by taking to the sky appears to have ...

Hatchlings drop into the water below and develop through a free-swimming tadpole stage. “This is remarkable. Upside-down spawning is the most unique behaviour in this frog. No other frog is ...

providing a small platform for animals to easily escape from swimming pools. The product has been successfully tested with a range of animals, including mice, lizards, ducklings and frogs.

The larvae are aquatic and free-swimming—frogs and toads at this stage are called tadpoles. At a certain size, the young develop limbs and lungs. Some also lose their tails. Eventually ...