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Amphibians
These cold-blooded vertebrate animals belong to the class Amphibia including over 6,200 species in three groups: caecilians (order Gymnophiona), frogs and toads (order Anura) and salamanders (order Caudata). Amphibians can live both in land and water.
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What three groups of amphibians are alive today?
Anura composed to frogs & toads,Caudata made up of salamanders & newts, Gymnophiona consist Caecilians leg-less amphibians that resembles to giant earth worms
Actually, in fact, a bull frog is able to eat a scorpion (and spiders). The frog is able to stun the prey with his bite. It crushes the outer shell or body slowly, while the frog releases a digestive enzyme. This gives the spider or scorpion no chance to bite the frog.
What amphibian can survive having its body frozen solid for long periods?
Frogs can and sometimes the water in their body freezes too! But only some types of Frogs.
Are AMPHIBIANS born from eggs or born alive?
They're born from eggs - some are simply abandoned, while others are 'guarded' by the parents until they hatch.
Did ancestral amphibians appeared on earth about the same time as ancestral fishes?
True you dumb asses
Caecilians eat worms,insects,small snakes and lizards,mollusks and smaller amphibians.
A worm is not an amphibian it is from a different phylum, Annelid(ae), along with leaches and similar species.
Which of the following is used to calculate a stream's discharge?
b the volume of water that flows over time
They are INSECTS
Why does Hawaii have no mammals reptiles or amphibians?
This is due to Hawaii being very isolated; thousands of miles from the nearest mainland. As a result, most of the native animal life of Hawaii consists of birds and insects whose ancestors were likely blown to the islands by storms.
some amphibians live in the water for shelter and some could live on land too.
What features has amphibians enable them to survive?
Amphibians have a wide range of methods to survive. Most important is their ability to survive drought.
How do amphibians feed their young?
They don't! Most amphibians are generally independent from the moment they are born. However some, such as the worm, feed their young their own flesh.
Amphibians do not feed their young. They lay the eggs in water and leave them to fend for themselves. They are also quite likely to eat their own young. That is why they have so many eggs.
How is the weight of an amphibian's body transferred to the limbs?
The weight of an amphibian's body is transferred to the limbs by using the pectoral and pelvic girdles.
Can a amphibian live in an environment where the temperature is very low?
No, that would be quite unfavorable for them in multiple ways.
The origin of the term Amphibia comes from Latin meaning 'two lives' (land and water based), as most amphibians spend a larval stage as aquatic water breathers.
