KYOTO--Japanese commonly describe a person frozen with fear as looking like “a frog scared stiff by a snake.” But at least from a scientific perspective, it turns out the traditional portrayal ...

This technique, called startle coloration, may give a bird or snake pause, offering a precious instant for the frog to spring to safety. Their neon-green bodies may play a similar role in ...

When attacked, they can't exactly fight. So they scream ... is meant to attract an owl that will attack a snake that's about ...