Across the northern forests of North America, an ordinary-looking brown frog performs one of the most extreme survival feats in the animal kingdom. Each autumn the wood frog burrows into leaf litter, ...

Without this couple's efforts, the dusky gopher frog eventually may have ceased to exist in Mississippi's coastal plains.

Each fall, wood frogs across North America do something that would kill almost any other vertebrate: they let themselves ...

Frogs display a remarkable diversity of species as a whole, but does the same hold true for their visual abilities? A new study led by York University's Faculty of Science has sought to answer this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus or Rana sylvatica) has a broad distribution over North America, extending from the Boreal ...

The Eiffinger's tree frog (Kurixalus eiffingeri), found on Ishigaki and Iriomote islands in Japan, has a unique biological adaptation: its tadpoles do not defecate during their early developmental ...

It's no secret - I love amphibians. Frogs and salamanders are, in my opinion, some of the most fascinating animals around. Just think about it. Many start their lives in the water looking more like ...

Here’s a great case of real life turning out to be stranger than fiction. From baby’s first storybook to sly adult graphic novels, the story we’re told is the same: Male frogs croak with the bottom of ...

Each winter, Portland volunteers "taxi" Northern red-legged frogs to and from their egg-spawning ground. The service protects them from becoming roadkill on a highway. In Portland, Oregon, a special ...