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The Ultimate Amphibian Book: 100 Slimy, Shocking Trivia & Facts for Kids: Mind-Blowing Discoveries About Frogs, Salamanders & Caecilians for Curious Y
Paperback
Series: The Ultimate Trivia Books for Kids
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 11 2026
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Did you know a frog can freeze solid, stop its own heart, and come back to life in spring?
Or that a common weed killer found in American waterways is chemically changing the sex of wild frogs?
Or that a salamander no bigger than your hand can regrow its heart, its spinal cord, and portions of its own brain?
Amphibians are the most threatened group of vertebrates on Earth, the most medically valuable, and almost certainly the least understood. And the more scientists study them, the stranger and more extraordinary they turn out to be.
The Ultimate Amphibian Book puts it all in one place. With 100 carefully researched questions, surprising answers, and wild discoveries that will change how you think about every frog, toad, salamander, and mysterious legless creature hiding in the world's wet places, this book goes deeper than any classroom lesson ever could.
Inside you will discover:
- The frog so toxic a single adult could kill ten humans through skin contact alone, and how it gets its poison from its food
- The salamander that turns its own broken bones into retractable claws when threatened and heals completely afterward
- How a mother caecilian lets her babies peel and eat the outer layer of her own skin, which regrows every few days
- The frog that swallowed its own eggs and incubated tadpoles in its stomach for six weeks by switching off its own digestive system
- Why the extinction of amphibians may be destroying potential cures for cancer, HIV, and chronic pain before scientists can discover them
- How a tiny transparent frog lets you watch its heart beating through its chest without any equipment at all
- The animal that represents the single largest infectious disease-driven extinction event ever recorded in vertebrate history
Every question comes with a full answer, detailed explanation, and a why it's interesting fact that connects the biology to the bigger picture. This is not just trivia. It is a deep dive into one of Earth's most ancient, most threatened, and most medically important animal groups.
Perfect for curious kids ages 8-12, classroom use, family trivia nights, and anyone who has ever wondered what is really going on inside the skin of the small wet creatures living in every pond, stream, and rain puddle on Earth.
They have survived everything this planet has thrown at them for 360 million years. It is time to find out how.
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