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Frogs and toads make up the largest group of amphibians. However, a lot of people are not aware of a Desert Rain Frog. The species, which is mostly found in Namibia and South Africa, is on a ...
One of the cutest butts in the natural world undoubtedly belongs to the desert rain frog. It’s small, saggy, and looks like Hank Hill‘s bottom in “King of the Hill.” There’s just ...
"It's a pretty rare opportunity for a desert ecologist to be able to say that they're going out 'frogging'," Dr West said. It is not just the frogs that have reappeared after the rain. Dr West ...
Get a little rain in a desert, and all sorts of things can happen - like frogs. In our series "Sounds Wild", NPR is collecting the voices of animals. Today we've got a mob of frogs recorded in the ...
The angry squeaking desert rain frog shot to internet fame and glory back in 2015 when the BBC revealed it to the world and, despite it taking over two years to happen, we finally now have an ...
And with the summer rain comes Cecil Schwalbe, the frog man of the desert. "To a biologist, this is mecca, this is heaven," says Schwalbe, a herpetologist with the U.S. Geological Survey.