Spring is filled with so many cool and interesting natural things. The earth is awaking after a long and frozen sleep. Each year I am surprised when I hear my first frogs calling. It always seems ...

Tadpoles have gills to breathe underwater ... As temperatures fluctuate in the spring, the chorus frog can survive the freezing of its body fluids down to 17 deg. F. They eat ants, beetles ...

Cliff Edwards took this photo of a Pacific Chorus Frog sitting in the shallows by the bank of Tehachapi Creek.

After hatching, the tadpoles transform into adult frogs in eight to 10 weeks. The chorus frog is among the first of the frog species to emerge each spring. How these frogs survive winter in ...