The true nature of that seemingly grotesque back was the 'ultimate cradle' to ensure the children survive in waters filled ...

The Surinam toad, or Pipa pipa. - Pix by Renato Augusto Martins (CC BY-SA 4.0) WHILST some animals give birth to live young, others lay eggs. For some species, fertilisation can happen inside the body ...

A toad like no other With its flattened body, triangular head, and tiny lidless eyes perched right on top, the Pipa pipa ...

Most frogs are recognised by a familiar set of features: bulging eyes, powerful legs and a life divided between water and land. The Surinam toad seems determined to ignore almost all of those ...

Surinam toads (Pipa pipa) are strange, flat frogs with minuscule eyes that live in the murky waters of the Amazon basin and carry their eggs on their backs. The way they catch prey is even weirder.

Childbirth isn’t exactly pretty for any species, but watching a Surinam toad (Pipa pipa) giving birth can make even the most hardened naturalist take pause. Rather than lay eggs somewhere in the water ...

The Suriname toad is nearly blind, has no tongue, and hunts in water too murky to see through, yet it strikes with lethal precision in under a tenth of a second. Scientists just figured out the ...

Reproduction in the Surinam toad is your classic love story. Two toads meet. They fall in love. And next thing you know dozens of little toadlets come bursting out from under their mother’s skin. I’m ...

Cape Town - Imagine giving birth multiple times, alone in the wild, out of little holes in your back. Not the average traveller's daily fantasy and not something you'd wish upon that annoying and rude ...