if you lived in California or Oregon you might not have ever seen a North American bullfrog. But now bullfrogs are all over North America, and can even be found on other continents. Some scientists think this is a problem because the bullfrog population is growing so quickly in parts of…...
The Horned Frogs are back in Fort Worth hosting a Pokes squad that is winless in Big 12 play ByAnthony NorthNovember 9 21Comments/21New Men’s Basketball: Second-half surge lifts TCU over Florida Gulf Coast Vasean Allette scored a team-high 14 points off the bench as the Horned Frogs ...
The different types of frogs can be told apart in many different ways. The biggest difference is between frogs and toads in North America. Frogs are skinnier than toads and their skin is smooth and looks slimy. Toads have wider bodies and their skin is drier and rough and warty. In some ...
Their native range stretches from the Amazon basin in South America up to southern Texas. But humans have introduced cane toads elsewhere, and their insatiable appetites can be a big problem for wildlife. They are an invasive species in areas such as Florida and Australia, where they compete ...
The early diversification of anurans predated the initial north-south breakup of Pangaea, and resulted in distinct assemblages in both hemi- spheres. The subsequent radiation of neobatrachian frogs has been largely determined by Gondwanan fragmenta- tion and resulted in recurrent patterns of ...
We begin with a poison allegedly brewed from a toad by the “wise wife of Keith,” Agnes Sampson, one of the accused in Scotland’s North Berwick witch trials in 1591-2. The poison was to have been used against Scotland’s James VI before he ascended England’s throne as James I. At...
Scaphiopus North American Spadefoots Holbrook, 1836 Scaphiopus couchii (CA) + (TX) + (BC) Couch's Spadefoot Baird, 1854 Sounds Scaphiopus hurterii Hurter's Spadefoot Strecker, 1910 Smilisca Mexican Treefrogs Cope, 1865 Smilisca baudinii Mexican Treefrog (Duméril and Bibron, 1841) Sounds Sm...
Sampson saw action in four games over his two seasons at North Texas, but the big-bodied tackle addressed a need as both Brandon Coker and Andrew Coleman are finished in Fort Worth. He is the 22nd-best offensive tackle in the transfer portal, and he chose TCU over SMU, Baylor, California...
Historically, the export of wildlife has represented an additional source of income in rural communities across the world. In Colombia, poison dart frogs have been heavily trafficked from the rainforests of the Pacific coast to Europe, North America and Japan, where they are sold to collectors for...
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