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Girlpyramid
Such beautiful and normal creatures
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Sping in Maine is so weird its literally like 50F and snowing. Make up your mind
Sping :) I hope the frogs are out
Banded Bullfrog aka Asian Painted Bullfrog (Kaloula pulchra), family Microhylidae, found throughout SE Asia
photograph by Bob Ferguson
What do poison dart frogs feel like? Are they squishy?
Exactly like all other frogs: a little cold, a little damp, a little soft—especially on the belly—and a little like you shouldn't pop them straight in your mouth even though you kind of want to.
These are...
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By Marius Burger, CC0
Houston Toad (Anaxyrus houstonensis), male calling, family Bufonidae, Central TX, USA
CRITICALLY ENDANGERED.
Endangered due to habitat destruction. (Recently impacted from intense wildfires).
Despite, the name, this frog probably never lived in the Houston area, and is only found in Bastrop County, TX. (The historical range of this toad is not well understood).
They require sandy soils, usually associated with pine forests and Post Oak Savannah.
photograph by Texas Parks & Wildlife Dept.
Muller’s Termite Frog (Dermatonotus muelleri), family Microhylidae, Brazil
photograph by Guilherme Lopes Machado
when spring has almost spoinged and youre thrilled about that but it'll also be too hot to wear the Cool Genuine Leather Jacket you bought for winter
this post is in content label review btw because of the wet little naked frog
Teeny tiny orange toadlet found in Brazil
A unique mating call led biologists to this newly discovered pint-sized amphibian.
A new pumpkin toadlet species was recently discovered in the mountains of southern Brazil. Brachycephalus lulai is just over one centimeter (only 0.39 inches) long and the size of a pencil tip. It’s a completely new species of frog, and detailed in a study published this week in the journal PLOS One. “This new species is unique due to a combination of many characteristics,” Marcos R. Bornschein, a study co-author biologist at the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) in São Paulo, Brazil, tells Popular Science. “But it stands out because of its orange coloration and particular features of its advertisement call, including the presence of four pulses per note...”
Read more: https://www.popsci.com/environment/new-orange-frog-brazil/
NEW TOADLET
We have now wrapped up fieldwork at our second site, the incredible rainforests of Ranomafana. Our goal there was to find individuals of another extremely small frog, actually described alongside Mini, namely Anodonthyla eximia. This particular species is especially interesting, because it represents yet another instance of independent evolution of miniaturisation in Malagasy narrow-mouthed frogs (family Microhylidae, subfamily Cophylinae); much smaller than all other Anodonthyla, and apparently totally terrestrial, unlike all of its arboreal cousins! It was described from an area called Maharira, a significant distance into the forest. This frog has previously been known only from a single specimen, so we knew this was an ambitious goal before we even set out.
Getting to Maharira was an arduous affair. An hour on good road followed by an hour on horrendous road, where we frequently got stuck, followed by six hours of hard hiking on terrible paths for about 18 km of up and down and up and down, through rivers up to our thighs, partly in the rain, with 21 porters to carry our equipment and food—it certainly was an adventure!
But we finally got to the campsite used before by a few different teams, and set ourselves up for work. Alongside A. eximia, we were continuing the herpetofaunal inventory of this rather remote area, and searching for a few other taxa for the GEMINI project as well. Already the first night was a productive one, although we hardly strayed away from the campsite. Heavy rain had brought out quite a few frogs to sing happily into the night.
Our time in Maharira was limited to just four nights, so we put in hard work to try to capture as much of the diversity as possible. But at the back of my head was always the problem of A. eximia. We just couldn’t find them. Finally, on the third day, we set out before six in the morning, because knew that they should be calling in the morning. We hiked for a ways down a path until finally we heard small whistling calls that could only be them or other miniaturised microhylid frogs. We set ourselves to it, and finally, after almost an hour, we caught the first specimen, after slowly lifting leaf after leaf to find it in the litter. And indeed this was A. eximia! The second I found not long after, and managed to record it calling. What a thrill! To be the second person in the world to catch these frogs was amazing. And they are truly remarkable creatures.
Were it not for their unusual skull, hands, and pectoral girdle, they would be almost impossible to tell apart from Mini and Stumpffia. Even their behaviour is practically the same. But in this forest we found no trace of either of those other two genera, so it looks like this was just opportunity for them to explore an otherwise unoccupied niche. This is such a remarkable case of convergent evolution of both size and ecology, which I hope the GEMINI project will help shed light on through high-quality genomes.
That same night, we went for a walk into the forest and found Plethodntohyla inguinalis—possibly the largest microhylid in the world. Seeing the contrast was incredible. But I didn’t dare put the two side-by-side for fear of the larger eating the smaller—they’re voracious and indiscriminate predators.
Ironically, on the morning of the following day we realised that we could hear A. eximia calling just a few metres from our tents; the early morning hike hadn’t been necessary at all. But still, it was very much worth it to have a better understanding of their distribution and ecology. Fascinating little frogs!
The rest of the work was much more relaxed after this success, and we were able to continue the survey with full energy. The final night, after almost everything was packed, I went to look what frog was calling behind our toilet. It turned out to be almost certainly a new species of Anodonthyla!
The next morning we had to hike back out of the forest, this time in the scorching heat. But we were buoyed by the success of our search!
Now we have made our way back to Antananarivo, and today we will continue on to the Andasibe area for the third and final leg of our trip, searching for still more extremely miniaturised reptiles and amphibians!
The humble orb
Ferguson’s Robber Frog (Pristimantis fergusoni), family Strabomantidae, Ecuador
Described by science this year, 2026!
photographs via:
A new spiny frog of the genus Pristimantis (Anura, Strabomantidae) from the eastern slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes
Happy Valentine's! Here's a squirrel I saw at work today.
Happy Belated Valentines!!!
I love this furry friend!
Red Robber Frog (Pristimantis erythros), family Strabomantidae, endemic to Cajas National Park, Ecuador
Described by science in 2018.
photograph via:
A new species of Pristimantis (Anura, Craugastoridae) from the Cajas Massif, southern Ecuador
being sober rules if anyone was wondering. im full of energy, my mind is sharp as hell, my organs don't hurt, I sleep like a rock, my exercise is improving, im in a better mood, I spring out of bed on the weekend, and I actually want to talk to people. Now look at this fat toad
Vicious predator who tried to eat my mom
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sorry boss can't come in today i was on my way to work and then a gentle spring breeze kissed my cheek and reminded me it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world
species found!
sorry boss can't come in today i was on my way to work and then a gentle spring breeze kissed my cheek and reminded me it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world
Mark's Bush Frog (Raorchestes marki)
listed as Critically Endangered (Decreasing)