At Least One Florida Sewage System Is Swimming With Alligators, Study Shows
Alligators living in the sewers isn’t just an urban legend.
Alligators living in the sewers isn’t just an urban legend.
The Southern Darwin’s frog is unique in the amphibian world, and conservationists are racing to save it from extinction.
Researchers just described one of the tiniest frogs known to science.
In the animal kingdom, it’s not that unusual to start out as one sex and end up as another.
Are frogs and toads really that different? Get the facts on their appearance, habitats, and breeding habits and learn how to tell them apart.
We simply have to assume that at least one researcher made some reference to Harry Potter’s chocolate frogs when they found it.
After being bathed in blue light, salamanders, frogs, and other amphibians glowed a brilliant green. There's more to these critters than meets the eye.
Cuban treefrogs are a major pest in south and central Florida. Now they're in New Orleans, too.
Eight legs, eight eyes, no fears.
The culprit is parasites, not pollution.
Ninety percent of frogs alive today descend from just three lineages that survived the extinction 66 million years ago.
A peptide secreted by the frog’s skin kills the H1 variety of the flu virus.
Numbers of Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frogs are on the rise again in Yosemite National Park.
Bornean rock frogs use visual “foot flags” to ward off rivals in their noisy environment.
Some populations of lowland leopard frogs in Arizona have gene variants that protect them from a deadly fungal disease.
Hawaii’s Big Island is overrun with a very tiny—and very loud—frog.
Sometimes the best, or even only, solution to a problem is a counterintuitive one.
Like proud parents, scientists often give their discoveries the biggest, most impressive names they can think of.