EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -The majority of frogs, such as this species in the genus Pelophylax, are entirely toothless on their lower jaw. This species of frog in the genus Hemiphractus sports bony fangs and a finely serrated jawline that aid in capturing prey.

Detailed explanation-2: -In a frog, teeth are present only in the upper jaw. The teeth in the upper jaw are called Maxillary teeth. Frogs also have a few teeth on the roof of their mouth and they are called Vomerine teeth. A frog’s teeth are very small and conical in shape.

Detailed explanation-3: -The frog’s skull is broad and flat, encasing and protecting the brain, and it uses its mandible (lower jaw) and the maxillary teeth of its upper jaw to hold on to prey.

Detailed explanation-4: -Frogs have teeth? Actually, yes: Most frogs have a small number of them on their upper jaws. But virtually all 7, 000 species of living frogs lack teeth along their lower jaws-except for G. guentheri.

Detailed explanation-5: -Of the more than 6, 000 species of frogs, only one, a South American marsupial tree frog called Gastrotheca guentheri, has teeth on both its upper and lower jaws.