Some tree frogs with limited access to water excrete most of their metabolic waste as uric acid.

The granular poison frog ( Oophaga granulifera ) is typical of a number of tree frogs in the poison dart frog family Dendrobatidae.

There are also many species of tree frogs, and fish such as sturgeon and paddlefish.

* Melian Nymphs ( Island of Melos ), transformed into frogs by Zeus ; not to be confused with the Meliae ( ash tree nymphs )

Other fossils from the Cretaceous rocks of the Kyzyl Kum include tree trunks, pelecypods, beetles, sharks, rays, bony fish, frogs, salamanders, turtles, crocodylomorphs, pterosaurs, and a varied fauna of small early mammals.

Examples include some species of ostracods, small salamanders approximately 2. 5 centimeters ( 1 inch ) in length, and tree frogs.

Other imported species include the cane toad ( Bufo marinus ), and tree frogs.

It is usually described as a ringing noise, but in some patients, it takes the form of a high-pitched whining, electric buzzing, hissing, humming, tinging or whistling sound, or as ticking, clicking, roaring, " crickets " or " tree frogs " or " locusts ( cicadas )", tunes, songs, beeping, sizzling, sounds that slightly resemble human voices or even a pure steady tone like that heard during a hearing test, and in some cases, pressure changes from the interior ear.

This cat eats small mammals ( sometimes including monkeys ), birds, eggs, lizards and tree frogs.

Professor Joshua Barr of the Staines Cyrobiology Laboratory in Middlesex ( UK ) has been carrying out experiments with British tree frogs to discover whether they also exhibit tolerance to very low temperatures in the same way as exhibited by American Tree Frogs.

In more advanced anurans like the true frogs ( Ranidae ), the tree frogs ( Hylidae ) and the true toads ( Bufonidae ) the amplexus is axillary ( in the armpits ), while in less derived anurans ( the Archaeobatrachia ) and frogs in the Myobatrachidae family it is lumbar ( abdominal, in front of the hindlegs ).

Prey taken include insects, spiders, centipedes and millipedes, as well as lizards and tree frogs.

This region of Poland houses species like: cranes, common goldeneyes, goosanders, western marsh harriers, ruffs, kingfishers, trouts, common vipers, fire salamanders, tree frogs and great crested newts.

They eat insects, found in leaf litter or on tree trunks ; they may also eat small lizards or tree frogs.

Among tropical populations, they are several records of this species regularly taking frogs ( especially tree frogs ), lizards, large insects such as wasps and locusts, such alternate prey apparently providing a much large portion of the diet than in Florida populations.

" grass frogs " are usually members of the tree frog family ( Hylidae ), in particular of the genus Litoria.

However, the Little Grass Frog ( Pseudacris ocularis ) of the southeastern USA belongs to the tree frogs.

), exudates ( Homopteran larvae secretions ), and small vertebrates such as tree frogs, geckos, and chameleons.

Amphibian species frequenting the Audubon Society pond include rough-skinned newts, Pacific tree frogs, and salamanders.

The springs and seeps in the park contain isolated populations of western toads, American spadefoot toads, Pacific tree frogs, and long-toed salamanders.

tree branches snapped as she pushed them ruthlessly away from her.

The marine was alone, for they were impatient people and by now would have vied to knock him from the tree.

The only extended view possible to anyone less tall than the fences was that obtained from an upper bough of the apple tree.

Every morning early, in the summer, we searched the trunks of the trees as high as we could reach for the locust shells, carefully detached their hooked claws from the bark where they hung, and stabled them, a weird faery herd, in an angle between the high roots of the tulip tree, where no grass grew in the dense shade.

Soon her purring rivaled the chirping of the tree crickets, rivaled the hum of voices from inside the Pod.

Another poultice was made from the inner bark of the elm tree, steeped in water until it formed a sticky, gummy solution.

Then from the branches of a near-by tree an Indian underclassman, disdaining both the platform and the English language, harangued the assemblage in his aboriginal tongue.

Chief among the seed crops grown primarily for industrial uses are the oil-bearing seeds -- flax, castor, tung ( nuts from the China wood-oil tree ), perilla ( from an Oriental mint ), and oiticica ( from a Brazilian tree ).

Solid fats from the seeds of the mahua tree, the shea tree, and the coconut palm are used to make candles in tropical countries.

Coffee is made from the roasted and ground seeds of the coffee tree.

Cocoa, chocolate, and cocoa butter come from the ground seeds of the cacao tree.

Several soft drinks contain extracts from kola nuts, the seed of the kola tree cultivated in the West Indies and South America.

`` Wherefore also He ( God ) drove him ( man ) out of Paradise, and removed him far from the tree of life, not because He envied him the tree of life, as some venture to assert, but because He pitied him, ( and did not desire ) that he should continue a sinner for ever, nor that the sin which surrounded him should be immortal, and evil interminable and irremediable.

She stared at the pale tracings on the tree, hearing her breath refracted from it, her face close and touching at time the rough edges of the bark.

Marsyas could not do this with his instrument ( the flute ), and so Apollo hung him from a tree and flayed him alive.

The common tree frog ( Polypedates leucomystax ) from Asia makes a foam nest on a leaf above an ephemeral pool.

* In 1984, five Argentines sail in a 10-meter-long raft made from tree trunks named Atlantis from Canary Islands and after 52 days journey arrived to Venezuela in an attempt to prove travelers from Africa may have crossed the Atlantic before Christopher Columbus.

Although most extant species of Asteraceae are herbaceous, the examination of the basal members in the family suggests that the common ancestor of the family was an arborescent plant, a tree or shrub, perhaps adapted to dry conditions, radiating from South America.

* Developing a family tree of languages and noting the relative distance of the splits that occur in it.

Aeneas had an extensive family tree.

The family tree below is a combination of the Ahenobarbus family tree and its relations with the members of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

Ailanthus (; derived from ailanto, an Ambonese word probably meaning " tree of the gods " or " tree of heaven ") is a genus of trees belonging to the family Simaroubaceae, in the order Sapindales ( formerly Rutales or Geraniales ).

* Severan dynasty family tree

According to the Septuagint, Amram's family tree would be as follows:

while according to the Masoretic text, Amram's family tree would be as follows:

* Kings of Germany family tree

* family of Gediminas – family tree of Aldona

Bryozoans ' evolutionary relationships to other phyla are also unclear, partly because scientists ' view of the family tree of animals is mainly influenced by better-known phyla.

Holly's pregnant wife, a widow after barely six months of marriage, miscarried soon after, ending that part of the Holly family tree.

* Kings of Germany family tree.

He adopted the Latinate name Linnæus after a giant linden tree ( or lime tree ), in Swedish, that grew on the family homestead.

The father-to-son family tree, now in its 83rd generation, has been recorded since the death of Confucius.

Because of the huge interest in the Confucius family tree, there was a project in China to test the DNA of known family members.