"Their ability to live high in the canopy and only descend to breed shows an impressive niche specialization." ...

Frogs that hatch during the cooler months of December through April are exposed to fewer infected frogs, but those they do ...

What explains the vivid colors of the strawberry poison-dart frog? Piotr Naskrecki / Minden Pictures In the animal world as in fashion, bright color makes a bold statement. The vivid hues of the ...

It's frog time around the old swimming hole. Evenings are filled with their chirping, croaking and bellowing, and interestingly they're found both in and out of the water. Did you ever wonder how they ...

Frogs need water. Almost all of the world's 7,900 known frog species breed in fresh water. And when it rains, these amphibians erupt into a chorus of calls—croaks, trills, cheeps and bellows—to ...

Every predator needs to catch its prey. We humans use our hands, sharks and wolves use their jaws, but a few animals such as frogs use something much stranger: their tongues. To understand just how ...

Researchers have been scanning the skies looking for black holes that formed at the very beginning of the Universe — one place where elusive and mysterious dark matter is thought to be located. If ...

Every spring in Interior Alaska, a small amphibian does something that would kill virtually any other vertebrate: it thaws ...