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Description
Time period - 5 million A.D.

Habitat - Malagasy Badlands

A larger, stockier descendant of tomato frogs that evolved to live in the future arid forests of Madagascar. The fatoad has a thicker skin to help retain water as the animal traverses through the dry landscape it inhabits. Due to many predatory pressures, the fatoad has evolved a warning color to ward off would-be carnivores, as its flesh is highly toxic to eat. It gets its toxins from its food sources such as poisonous ants and beetles, which are digested in the frog's stomach and the toxins are absorbed into its skin. Although adapted to arid landscapes, the eggs are still jellied, so the female guards her eggs and tadpoles in her mouth until they mature into juveniles, which resemble miniature adults.

Description
Time period - 5 million A.D.

Habitat - Malagasy Badlands

A larger, stockier descendant of tomato frogs that evolved to live in the future arid forests of Madagascar. The fatoad has a thicker skin to help retain water as the animal traverses through the dry landscape it inhabits. Due to many predatory pressures, the fatoad has evolved a warning color to ward off would-be carnivores, as its flesh is highly toxic to eat. It gets its toxins from its food sources such as poisonous ants and beetles, which are digested in the frog's stomach and the toxins are absorbed into its skin. Although adapted to arid landscapes, the eggs are still jellied, so the female guards her eggs and tadpoles in her mouth until they mature into juveniles, which resemble miniature adults.