This is an American Toad
- It's warty skin contains many glands that produce a poisonous milky fluid
- The eggs of an American toad are black on top and white on the bottom
- They are nocturnal (they hunt at night)
- American toads lay their eggs in water
Amphibians
Amphibians have no hair, scales, feathers or claws. Amphibians have skin that is moist. Amphibians are frogs, salamanders, toads and fish. The term amphibian means two lives and refers to many amphibians that start off life in water or in a fluid-filled egg sac, breathing through gills, and later leave the water to become land-inhabiting adults. Some amphibians do not live "two lives," however, but spend their whole lives either on land or in water.