Ecologist Dr. John Gould observed a female green and golden bell frog attempting to eat her male suitor while studying the ...

Evolving immunity to the Bd fungus and a reintroduction project saved a California frog. The key to rescuing other species might be in the frog’s genes.

During mating, some male poison frogs embrace their partner’s face in a love-potion-laced hug. The amorous amphibians may create pheromones in glands in their fingers, researchers report July 21 ...

Cuban tree frogs can hide in your toilet, in your gutters, in crevasses around your yard. On warm nights, they hang on walls ...

Most everyone recognizes frogs. Frogs, like salamanders and newts, are amphibians. Unlike salamanders, they have made a major evolutionary detour from the body plan of their ancient ancestors. The ...

African clawed frogs used to be the best human pregnancy tests in the world. Doctors would inject a woman's urine into the back of a female frog; if positive, the frog would lay eggs. Frog or ...

Emerging from a partially frozen pond more than 6,000 feet high in the Alps, European common frogs (Rana temporaria) set out to find mates and begin breeding activities. These frogs have adapted ...

On an isolated mountain peak in Venezuela, a brown-eyed creature with a see-through belly perched on a rock. Its remote home and “cryptic” appearance likely helped it avoid detection or, when ...

Eating frogs is a cultural practice in some parts of Ghana, but now a researcher there is studying the impact of this wild harvesting. Sandra Owusu-Gyamfi, an amphibian biologist and final year ...

Sad Santiago, possibly the rarest frog in the world, in the hand of Jaime Culebras. Jaime is searching for a mate for Santiago. Some people love frogs and toads. Other people have yet to be convinced!

Mesenteric (or intestinal) artery disease is a condition that develops when the arteries in the abdomen that supply the intestines become narrowed, or blocked, by an accumulation of a fatty substance ...