As frogs around the world continue to disappear—many killed by a rapidly spreading disease called chytridiomycosis, which attacks the skin cells of amphibians—one critically endangered species has ...

After having so much fun in last week’s column writing about robins, I thought, let’s explore tree frogs. Turns out there are a lot of interesting facts about these amphibians. This time of year, as ...

The American green tree frog is a staple of summer nights in the U.S. South, where its groaning call echoes through countless swamps, forests, fields, and backyards. Yet even for many people who share ...

The invasive, and elusive, Cuban tree frog has spread throughout Florida, requiring only a puddle of water to breed. With spring rain on the horizon, Dr. Steve Johnson, a professor of Wildlife Ecology ...

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America. Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species ...

On a private nature reserve in Costa Rica, Donald Varela-Soto searched for the source of a shrill frog call for six months. What he found turned out to be a new species, a tiny green tree frog that ...

Many Jamaicans have a somewhat superstitious fear of anything slippery and slimy — in other words, amphibians and reptiles. Lizards (in particular the endemic Jamaican Croaking Gecko, Aristelliger ...

There are over 5,000 species of known frogs, and scientists continue to discover new species. Frog species come in a variety of sizes and colors. They can be found in a variety of habitats on every ...

For frogs, love is noisy. Each spring, swamps, marshes and ponds across the United States become the amphibian equivalent of raucous singles bars as a host of damp-skinned hopefuls from many species ...

Litoria mira was discovered in the dense lowland rainforests of New Guinea. The frog was discovered in 2016 and researchers conducted genetic analysis to confirm it is indeed a new species. The frog ...

Laura Brannelly receives funding from The Australian Research Council. Alex Wendt receives funding from the Ecological Society of Australia Danielle Wallace receives funding from the Ecological ...