In 2013, two biologists named Jamie Voyles and Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki spent weeks slogging up and down mountainsides in Panama. “We were bug-bitten and beat up,” recalled Voyles, now an assistant ...
A species of frogs in Southern California whose future was once uncertain may have hope for survival in the wild thanks to a multi-agency breeding and reintroduction program. More than 70 endangered ...
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 these amazing amphibians. There are currently around 7,600 known species ...
(NEW YORK) — Scientists from India have discovered seven new species of frogs, according to a news release Tuesday from PeerJ, a peer-reviewed biological and medical sciences journal. All of the newly ...
Q. Last year, you provided facts about salamanders. What can you tell us about frogs and toads? How are they different from other animals? What makes them special? A. Salamanders, although abundant in ...
The discovery of new species within the genera Leptobrachella and Leptolalax highlights the increasingly recognised complexity of anuran biodiversity across Asia. Recent taxonomic studies employing ...
A remote island at the very northern tip of Australia has been revealed as a tropical refuge for three species new-to-science ...
We all know that frogs croak and ribbit, but do they also scream? Read here to learn more about screaming frogs and why they ...
The popularity of the famous French delicacy of cuisses de grenouille, or frogs’ legs, is threatening the existence of certain frog species, a group of more than 500 environmental campaigners has ...
As darkness settled across southern China, a “large” creature with spines on its belly sat in a stream. Its multicolored eyes ...
Many other species at Voyles’ research sites in Panama suffered the same grim fate. As had frogs around the world. Voyles and other frog researchers found that many of the dead frogs were covered with ...