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Tree frogs on a branch in Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Photograph: Nicolas Reusens/Barcroft USA
(Source: Guardian)
Tree frogs are seen during a nature walk at Phinizy Swamp Park in Augusta, Georgia.
Photograph: Sara Caldwell/ Corbis
A frog with a grasshopper on its head in Jakarta, IndonesiaPicture: Lessy Sebastian/Barcroft
Moor frogs (Rana arvalis) temporarily turning blue at the Ljubljana Marshes, Slovenia. It is thought that males turn blue during the mating season so they can quickly distinguish males from females among the dense frog populations
Photograph: Luka Esenko/Rex Features
(Source: Guardian)
A mass of common toads was snapped in a close embrace in Shepton Mallet, Somerset.
Picture: APEX
Two frogs jump for their lives as a duck lands on a branch where they were sunbathing.
Photograph: Thomas Jensen (Medical Prognosis Institute, Denmark)/BMC Ecology Image Competition
(Source: Guardian)
Reed Frog, Botswana by Petra Warner
A frog hitches a lift on the back of a snail, Central Borneo, Indonesia.
Picture: Nordin Seruyan / Barcroft Media
A Helen’s Flying Frog perches on a branch in Nui Ong Nature Reserve in Vietnam’s Binh Thuan Province. Australian biologist Jodi Rowley and Vietnamese colleagues have made a surprise discovery - a new species of flying frog gliding and jumping around less than 100 km (62 miles) from one of Southeast Asia’s busiest cities.
Picture: REUTERS/Australian Museum/Jodi Rowley
A banana tree frog tadpole hangs in a drop of water in the jungle in the Congo
Photograph: Natural History Unit/BBC
(Source: Guardian)
Pictured guarding a brood of eggs in its native northeastern India, the animal above is one of about six potentially new species belonging to a mysterious group of animals called caecilians. What’s more, the newfound critters represent an entirely new family of amphibians.
Photograph courtesy S.D. Biju
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Sweet singing frog (Gracixalus quangi)
Picture: Jodi J. L. Rowley / Australian Museum / New Species Found
‘Yin-yang’ frog (Leptobrachium leucops)
Picture: Jodi J. L. Rowley / Australian Museum / New Species Found
