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
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For the past four years the Fraser Valley Conservancy, a land trust in British Columbia, has been closing roads to help the provincially blue listed Western Toad migrate safely to the other side. The project has two main observation periods. During the spring FVC staff monitors adult amphibians as they migrate to and from the [...]
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.
Bullock’s false toad (Telmatobufo bullocki), a rare and elusive species not seen since 2005, has been spotted in the Nahuelbuta mountain range in the Bío Bío and Araucanía Regions of Chile.
An army sergeant in Iraq posted to Facebook a photo of a Lemon-yellow Tree Frog he encountered in a latrine, while a student participating in a scientific expedition in Costa Rica snagged a photo of a toad biologists had thought
GLENDALE – A few months ago, the frog fidgeting in Philip Fernandez’s hands lived in a pond far from this artificial habitat at Glendale Community College.
CRITICAL lessons learned breeding threatened species at Healesville Sanctuary are giving fresh hope to some of Australia’s most endangered native animals.
If you’re feeling sorry for yourself, just remember — at least you’re not a frog.
Scientists involved in an aggressive zoo breeding program to restore populations of an endangered frog in the local mountains are trying to determine why a batch of offspring has died.
When Randy Schuster-who teaches 7th-grade science at Mary Putnam Henck Intermediate School-attended a workshop for science teachers at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research, he was struck by their mountain yellow-legged frog breeding program.
A 12-year-old Millington boy has a new pet frog, though the slimy critter is not your run of the mill amphibian. Yes, the frog has the olive green skin and bulging eyes common to his species, but he has something his peers lack — a fifth leg.
VANCLEAVE — Representatives from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Resources Conservation Service, The Nature Conservancy and the U.S. Forest Service met Monday in Vancleave to discuss efforts to protect, maintain and expand the habitats of the gopher frog, an endangered species, and other threatened species in the longleaf pine
The invasion of the Cuban treefrog is a case study in what happens when an interloper that is a prolific breeder enters a new environment through human commercial activity. First identified in the Florida Keys in the 1920s,
WAIMANALO (HawaiiNewsNow) – The coqui frog is tiny and tenacious. Its call in the wild has been heard all over Oahu.
Have you seen these signs? Two frog crossing signs in Wayne County have been stolen.
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