Strange Amphibians
1) Chinese giant salamander
2) Sagalla caecilian - a limbless amphibian with sensory tentacles on the sides of its head
3) Purple frog - lives 4m underground for most of the year
4) Ghost frogs of South Africa - so-called as one species is found only in the traditional human burial grounds of Skeleton Gorge in Table Mountain, South Africa
5) Olm - a blind salamander that can survive without food for ten years
6) Lungless salamanders of Mexico
7) Malagasy rainbow frog
8) Chile Darwin's frog - feared to already be extinct as it has not officially be seen since 1980
9) Betic midwife toad - the males carry the fertilised eggs wrapped around their hind legs
10) Gardiner's Seychelles frog – the size of a drawing pin
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