Every winter, the wood frog stops its own heart, lets its body freeze solid, and somehow wakes up in spring ready to mate.
Scientists have identified seven new diamond frog species in Madagascar. These discoveries highlight the island's extensive ...
When humans form love triangles, drama often ensues. Three-way romance tends to capture our interest, like the iconic Lancelot-Guinevere tale or more recently, that whole Jada Pinkett Smith thing. But ...
"Their ability to live high in the canopy and only descend to breed shows an impressive niche specialization." ...
In rainforests in Gabon, amphibians with larger toes relative to their body length are found higher in the forest canopy. Leptopelis boulengeri, commonly known as the Victoria Forest Tree Frog, is ...
Zebra mussels, an aquatic invader from Eurasia, continue their continental spread after arriving in North America. These tiny shellfish are now infesting Lake Meredith in Texas, raising new concerns.
High in Peru’s San Martín cloud forests, a small brown frog with golden eyes has slipped into the scientific record at the very moment its world is shrinking. Oreobates shunkusacha, whose Kichwa name ...
A new species of glass frog has been discovered in the swampy forests of Peru, according to a study. Photo from Lingchor via Unsplash Researchers discovered a new and “peculiar” amphibian species ...
The Harapan forest on the Indonesian island of Sumatra is teeming with frog species, one of which was just described last year. These amphibians are threatened by a coal-trucking road that the ...
Urban myth has it that a frog placed in cold water that's brought to the boil will not react, dying a horrible death. Clearly this is a fallacy, yet climate change is forcing a similar predicament for ...