We've been explaining lots of cool things to Oliver lately because he has lots of questions. One of them being, what is the difference between frogs and toads? I didn't know, so I thought I'd check it out. The answer was surprising. Toads are actually frogs, however there are differences, seeing as they are in two different families* (Ranidae and Bufonidae, respectively).
Main differences include: frog skin is wet, toad skin is not; eye shape is different; frogs hop, toads walk. See here for more differences.
*And just a note taking you back to 7th grade biology, there are seven major categories according to Linnaeus's taxonomy: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.
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