A Loa water frogs rescued near the city of Calama, Chile. Ministry of Housing and Urbanism of Chile In June of this year, herpetologist Andrés Charrier took some of his colleagues to view the Loa ...

An array of factors contributed to the disappearance of these amphibians, including climate change and predators.

Communication requires a sender, a receiver, and a message. But communication doesn't take place in a vacuum. Often, there are unintended receivers listening in and unintentional messages getting ...

Water frogs have emerged as a compelling model in evolutionary biology due to their unusual modes of hybridization and reproductive genomics. Interspecific crosses between parental species have given ...

A clutch of critically-endangered water frogs rescued from a muddy puddle in Chile’s driest desert has birthed 200 offspring at the country’s national zoo, the Chilean government announced on ...

Frogs are pretty impressive little creatures – but they don’t always tend to have accuracy and physics on their side when it ...

In the past two decades, water frogs have spread rapidly in Central Europe. Using a new statistical model, researchers have now been able to show that local species such as the Yellow-bellied Toad and ...

Indigenous water frogs can be crowded out by immigrant or imported species. This is the finding of a Franco-German study. The scientists investigated water frog populations in France and Northern ...

Their movement is a form of "porpoising," leaping in and out of the water to travel Cricket frogs can’t walk (or hop) on water like once thought. Their bodies sink below the surface between successive ...

We have reached that time of year when windows are open and the sounds of nature are once again allowed to drift into our homes. During the daytime, we hear birds singing with excitement as the ...

At least 217 people, mostly young children, have been sickened by salmonella spread by pet African dwarf water frogs, government health officials said. A single California breeder of the frogs has ...