Every spring, visitors are serenaded by a chorus of frogs emanating from Stillman’s cattail marsh. And almost every person comments, “Listen to those spring peepers.” Guess what? Almost everyone who ...

Participants in a recent hike at Woodland Mound look for different types of amphibians making their annual migration to lay eggs in vernal pools. In the waning days of winter, as the temperatures ...

Animals utilize many different forms of adaptation to aid in their survival. Some species rely on camouflage for protection, some rely on speed, while others rely on behavior. However, there is a ...

This tadpole typically reaches a larger size than those of other frog species that inhabit more ephemeral (short-lived) bodies of water, such as puddles and shallow pools. Frog species that utilize ...

You can hear the choruses of male wood frogs in vernal pools during the early spring. It’s not the birds or the bees in this story. It’s actually frogs. Wood frogs, it turns out, start their mating ...

Frogs and toads fill the air with a loud chorus on summer evenings, especially following wet weather. But you may have to see them with your ears! Our house cat, Socks, sits on a window ledge next to ...

Frogs usually operate under our radar, but in late winter and early spring they leap to our attention as they let loose with their voices. Usually called Pacific tree frogs (although they aren’t true ...

Scientists have discovered that deforestation has caused infertility in frogs that are endemic to the Philippines. The truncate-toed chorus frog is a tree frog, and the slender-digit chorus frog is a ...

Evolutionary biologists working in the Philippines have long puzzled over a hard-to-find amphibian mystery: the Leyte Chorus Frog. It's a small, ground-dwelling frog from Leyte Island in the Visayan ...