Meet the Surinam Toad: World's most unusual frog that gives birth through its back

Most frogs are recognised by a familiar set of features: bulging eyes, powerful legs and a life divided between water and ...
The Star

QuickCheck: Is there really a toad whose babies burst from their mother’s back?

The Surinam toad, or Pipa pipa. - Pix by Renato Augusto Martins (CC BY-SA 4.0) WHILST some animals give birth to live young, others lay eggs. For some species, fertilisation can happen inside the body ...
Grist

Watch baby frogs freakishly pop out of their mom’s skin

The Surinam toad might be the weirdest animal ever. Picture “roadkill frog” and you’re on the right track. Not only is the toad unusually flat (to blend in with leaves on the pond floor), but it has ...
PBS

How Surinam Toads Give Birth

Reproduction in the Surinam toad is your classic love story. Two toads meet. They fall in love. And next thing you know dozens of little toadlets come bursting out from under their mother’s skin. I’m ...
Yahoo

Unusual South American toad that carries eggs in its back breeds for first time at Chester Zoo

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Surinam toad has an unusual trick for reproduction: instead of leaving their spawn in water to develop, once the eggs are laid ...