They have shorter back legs than typical frogs, and hop or crawl rather than jump.
Toads can live in habitats farther away from water than frogs can.
For this reason it must be kept wet, so frogs live in or very near water. They have long, strong hind legs for leaping and swimming. Newts are salamanders. They belong to the family Salamandridae, and are found throughout the northern Hemisphere. In the United States there are basically two kinds of newts.