Even within a single species, animals don't all respond in the same way to environmental changes. A new study of reed frogs in East Africa reveals that understanding these differences could be key to ...

Afrobatrachian frogs account for roughly half of all frog diversity in Africa, and their modern distribution is significantly influenced by a global climate event that ended 12,000 years ago. Why are ...

Multiple internal organs, including the rotated intestinal coil (yellow), can be easily seen through the transparent skin of the Xenopus tadpole. Image: Nanette Nascone-Yoder Human beings have around ...

Why are frogs diverse in some parts of Africa's rainforests and less so in others? The patterns of cooling and glaciation during the last ice age would probably not have been your first answer or even ...

Yes, the frogs are revered -- in Puerto Rico, not here. We seem to be normalizing the continued loss of Hawaiʻi's native ...

Males of the South American species incubate their young in their vocal sacs. The London Zoo recently established a breeding colony to save the frog from extinction. By Franz Lidz The folk song “Frog ...

Many people are blissfully unaware the world’s frogs and amphibians are fighting their own deadly pandemic. In fact, this fungal disease – chytridiomycosis, or chytrid for short – is the worst ...