Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frogs have long held a bad rap (at least among some people) for being slimy, even scary, critters, but that's not very fair to ...

If you're a homeowner in the Augusta area, chances are you've encountered a Cuban tree frog or two. So, how did the Cuban tree frog, an invasive species, hitchhike its way to the Southeast? Daniel ...

Wood frogs — Lithobates sylvaticus, also known as Rana sylvatica — live farther north than any other amphibian, even beyond the Arctic Circle. Unlike most frogs, they don’t overwinter underwater. They ...

A curious aspect of tree frogs is that they often lay their eggs on the ground where the risk of predation by natural enemies is greater than in the trees where they live. A research team suggested ...

A team of wildlife researchers from Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, in Brazil, working with a colleague from the National Museum of the Czech Republic, has discovered a new species of ...

Amphibians are often dismissed as low-tier animals when compared to reptiles, birds, or mammals. This video examines different amphibian species side by side, focusing on traits such as toxicity, ...

While poking around the garden the other day I found an adorable visitor. A small frog called a gray tree frog (Hyla versicolor) resting among the brightly colored flowers. This amazing little ...

For more than a century, two mysterious tree frog specimens collected by a British naturalist in 1870 and housed at the Natural History Museum in London were assumed to be part of a vanished species, ...

If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described ...

Full bellies and happy frogs over here. Caring for tree frogs takes the right balance of feeding, habitat, and daily care.

A new study by researchers at Yale and George Washington University examines the human threats to the amphibian family tree and calls for a rethinking of conservation priorities to preserve species ...