HAVE A FREAKIN FROG FACT!!
Have you ever read Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"? This short story inspired actual frog jumping competitions to be held annually in this California county. where frogs are put against one another to see which hopper can clear the farthest distance in 3 jumps.
FROG FACT TIME:
A recently discovered frog in Ecuador has been dubbed Pristimantis ledzeppelin, or, in plain English: "Led Zeppelin’s Rain Frog" . The scientists who discovered the frog just really like Led Zeppelin.
The oldest fossil "proto-frog" appeared in the early Triassic of Madagascar, but molecular clock dating suggests their origins may extend further back to the Permian, 265 million years ago.
A bonus FUN IN THE SUN BEACHY FUN FROG FACT for today - Beelzebufo ampinga - a 'devil frog' lived during the late Cretaceous period, about 65-70 million years ago. This now-extinct froggo weighed 10 pounds and was the size of a beach ball! Some even theorize that they feasted on hatchling dinosaurs for a meal
Recent studies on poison dart frogs reveal that the frogs may have internal sponges of a specialized protein that is used to absorb the frogs' own toxins, preventing themselves from becoming poisoned!