Explosive breeding brings frogs and salamanders together in vernal pools for a brief, frantic window. Learn how it works.

Animals do all sorts of things to attract each other as potential mates. Many birds, for example, produce feathers with elaborate color patterns – from the iridescent plumage of many hummingbirds to ...

A new study from the University of Texas at Austin suggests humans and animals often prefer the same sounds. By using an ...

Smithsonian and global partners are reintroducing Panamanian golden frogs and other amphibians while learning to combat chytrid fungus.

Fact is that no frog can live by cutaneous respiration for more than a year. Common-sense consensus was that the Ellensburg frogs, actually garden variety, must have climbed into some narrow crack to ...

Animals drinking water is a common phenomenon, and most of them do so by using their mouth. However, when we talk about frogs, they do so in a very unique and fascinating manner. Unlike other animals, ...

Had Mark Twain seen the 20,000 people who milled about last week in the little town of Angels Camp, Calaveras County, Calif, he would have beenastounded. Yet they were there because he once wrote a ...

Your taste in music may feel unique, but there may be something more biologically innate driving your acoustic choices: A new study found that animals and humans tend to prefer many of the same ...

The Birch Aquarium invites animal fans to hop into its newest exhibit opening today, Imagine Wild: Mountain Yellow-legged Frog.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Oregon Zoo release 100 northern leopard frogs into the wild in August to bolster the endangered species’ dwindling populations. The zoo already released more than 50 ...

New York state environmental officials are planning to update their list of endangered and threatened species as part of a push to protect animals that are at the brink of extinction. Those include ...