Testudines › Dermochelyidae
Leatherback sea turtle
Up to 2.7 m long
It has no bony shell, just leathery skin over oily flesh.
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Turtles and frogs
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Testudines › Cheloniidae
Loggerhead sea turtle
Up to 545 kg
Its dives can run past ten hours, outlasting every other air-breathing sea creature with a backbone.
Testudines › Cheloniidae
Hawksbill sea turtle
Typically 1 m long
Its armored head keeps out the stings of the Portuguese man o' war.
Testudines › Chelydridae
Common snapping turtle
Up to 34 kg, wild
Females sometimes store sperm for several years.
Testudines › Chelydridae
Alligator snapping turtle
79 to 101 cm long
It can stay under water for 40 to 50 minutes at a time.
Testudines › Emydidae
Pond slider
Up to 29 cm long
Some pond sliders fade to almost black, with few markings left to see.
Testudines › Testudinidae
Aldabra giant tortoise
250 kg average male
Some of them may have been alive for over 200 years.
Amphibia › Anura › Ranidae
American bullfrog
Up to 203 mm long
A male bullfrog has an eardrum bigger than his eye, and a female's is not.
Amphibia › Anura › Pipidae
African clawed frog
Cloned in 1962
The first vertebrate ever cloned was this frog, in 1962.
Amphibia › Anura › Hylidae
European tree frog
Females 40 to 50 mm
Once used as weather forecasters, since it croaks when rain is coming.
Amphibia › Anura › Pelodryadidae
Australian green tree frog
Up to 11.5 cm long
Its skin secretions may help make medicines.
Amphibia › Anura › Bufonidae
Common toad
Up to about 15 cm
Moved more than 3 km away in a test, a common toad can still find its own breeding pond.
Amphibia › Anura › Dendrobatidae
Golden poison frog
Most poisonous animal
Small, but considered the most poisonous animal species on the planet.
Amphibia › Anura › Conrauidae
Goliath frog
Up to 4.5 kg
The largest living frog.
Amphibia › Caudata › Salamandridae
Eastern newt
12 to 15 wild years
Its bright orange young lives on land, and is called a red eft.
Amphibia › Caudata › Cryptobranchidae
Hellbender
30 to 74 cm long
North America's biggest salamander, and it is a giant among its kind.
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