Anybody who spends time near a swamp can easily hear that frogs use their voices to chitchat, but it wasn’t until about two decades ago that researchers announced that these animals also converse with water-transported
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The world’s smallest vertebrate — animals that have a backbone — is a frog that could sit within the confines of your fingernail, a new study reports.
To coincide with Leap Day (February 29th) 2012, Amphibian Ark is launching a new international event, Leaping Ahead of Extinction: A celebration of good news for amphibians in 2012.
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – A federal judge has dashed attempts to ban lawn mowers and golf carts from a golf course that is home to the Californian red-legged frog and the San Francisco garter snake, which are threatened and endangered species, respectively.
The colorful markings of poison dart frogs vary depending on where the frogs live. Now, a new study using thousands of fake-frog decoys finds that these markings evolved hyper-locally, explaining why individuals in a single species of frog can sport so many different colors and patterns.
A species of frog that was thought to have been made extinct during the notorious drainage of the Hula marshlands in Israel, has appeared again after more than 50 years of hiding.
On the southeastern outskirts of Washington, D.C., inside the Smithsonian Institution’s cavernous Museum Support Center, one can see some frogs that no longer exist. Alcohol-filled glass jars hold preserved specimens
HOUSTON – The Houston Zoo has received a rare animal officials say is the only one of its species to be housed at an American zoo.
The chance discovery of a previously thought to be extinct species of frog has led James Cook University researchers to believe amphibians may have found a way to survive a devastating and fatal infection.
Itanagar, Sept 20 (PTI) A new frog species with blue eyes has been discovered in Eagle Nest Wildlife sanctuary at Sessa in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh.
It has been a mystery to mankind how, within the first month of a human pregnancy, this structure turns into an elongated embryo.
Biology students, when they begin to study embryos, are usually presented with an image that looks like the inside
EAST KOOTENAY Finding egg masses for the endangered northern leopard frog (Lithobates pipiens) is not an easy task. Once widespread throughout south eastern B.C. there are now only two known wild breeding areas remaining in the province.
Recently I got an intimate tour of a longleaf pine forest, a rapidly vanishing Southeastern ecosystem that is home to one-of-a-kind wildlife. Longleaf pines once dominated the landscape of coastal Mississippi, but deforestation and urbanization have decreased both these
It seems it is literally raining new frog species this monsoon.
Indian scientists have discovered as many as one dozen new species of frogs and rediscovered three lost ones in the biodiversity hotspot of the Western Ghats.
Having many partners may help your kids perform better, even if it puts your own health at risk – if you’re a frog – new research shows.
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