Although frogs and fish may appear similar from the water’s surface, they have many differences that make them easy to ...

Frogs are pretty impressive little creatures – but they don’t always tend to have accuracy and physics on their side when it ...

Water frogs have emerged as a compelling model in evolutionary biology due to their unusual modes of hybridization and reproductive genomics. Interspecific crosses between parental species have given ...

A clutch of critically-endangered water frogs rescued from a muddy puddle in Chile’s driest desert has birthed 200 offspring at the country’s national zoo, the Chilean government announced on ...

In 2019, the last known 14 Loa water frogs (Telmatobius dankoi) were evacuated from a swiftly vanishing stream in northern Chile. Now, after more than a year of meticulous care, they have produced 200 ...

Frogs need water. Almost all of the world's 7,900 known frog species breed in fresh water. And when it rains, these amphibians erupt into a chorus of calls—croaks, trills, cheeps and bellows—to ...

Their movement is a form of "porpoising," leaping in and out of the water to travel Cricket frogs can’t walk (or hop) on water like once thought. Their bodies sink below the surface between successive ...

A good question! Frogs are amphibians. This means they can’t regulate their own body temperatures and start life as water-dwelling creatures. As they mature, they grow legs and lungs to live on land.

At least 217 people, mostly young children, have been sickened by salmonella spread by pet African dwarf water frogs, government health officials said. A single California breeder of the frogs has ...