This helps them to stay camouflaged at the bottom of a muddy pond, or in a pile of damp leaves. Even though you may think frogs and toads look very similar, it s quite easy to tell the difference because frogs have smooth, moist skins whilst toads are quite dry and warty-skinned. Frogs use their long, powerful back legs for swimming and jumping. If you re lucky you might see one leaping athletically across the garden.
Toads have shorter legs and can only crawl along.
Frogs can breathe through their skin as well as their lungs. Their eyes and nostrils are on top of their heads so they can see and breathe even when most of their body is underwater. They eat insects, snails, slugs and worms, which they catch with their long, sticky tongues. Adult frogs can grow up to 10cm long. Frogs are amphibians, which comes from the Greek words amphi and bios meaning double life as they live both on land and in water.