Amazing things happen in nature as spring begins. The weather changes, plants and trees begin to flourish, and animals start ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frogs have long held a bad rap (at least among some people) for being slimy, even scary, critters, but that's not very fair to ...
A researcher from Colombia has been looking a how Phyllobates (a genus of poison dart frogs native to Central and South America) can avoid poisoning themselves. A 2010 analysis found that more than 63 ...
Tadpoles are to frogs as oranges are to apples. They are so very different, University of Cincinnati Professor Daniel Buchholz said. In his biology lab, he and his students are using a National ...
Smithsonian and global partners are reintroducing Panamanian golden frogs and other amphibians while learning to combat chytrid fungus.
In the Bay of Bengal’s Andaman archipelago, a type of amphibians — the Charles Darwin frogs — have developed a unique way of mating and laying eggs upside-down to avoid attacks from aggressive lone ...
Frogs have been on the decline in the Chicago area. The health of the frog population tells us a lot about the health of our environment. Laura Cripe grew up hiking in LaBagh Woods on Chicago’s North ...
As dozens of frog species have declined across Central America, scientists have witnessed a remarkable chain of events: With fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae, rates of mosquito-borne malaria in ...
The cordyceps fungus of "The Last of Us" may not pose a real risk of zombie-fying humankind, but can the same be said of our amphibian friends? Indian scientists on a nature walk through the foothills ...