If you want to do your own wood frog research, Barnes recommends getting a permit from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game ...

Madagascar's diamond frogs spend most of their lives hidden, and scientists have barely scratched the surface of understanding them. Now a research team has pulled off something remarkable by ...

A natural way to cut down on the amount of ticks in your yard is to get the help of tick predators. This group includes birds ...

Beneath the leaf litter of Madagascar’s forests, diamond frogs can remain hidden for most of their lives. An international research group has now described seven new species of these elusive ...

On summer nights, Downtown Cary Park comes alive with a wild chorus echoing from the ponds. It’s not a quirky new sound system - it’s the green tree frog, the headliner of Cary’s summer nights. Most ...

This spring, like every other spring, an amazing seasonal transition took place throughout the Anchorage Bowl (just as it does in most of Alaska). And, as happens every year in April and May, we ...

More like daddy frog legs. Although known for eating bugs and other invertebrates, it appears daddy longlegs are pursuing bigger game. Researchers observed these gangly arachnids chowing down on small ...

In the world of amphibians, sexual dichromatism, where one sex appears a different colour, is an unusual phenomenon. Dichromatism can be further split into ‘ontogenetic’, where the sexes remain ...

Finding a new species sounds like the kind of thing that should happen in a wild, far-off place. It brings to mind dense forests, steep mountains, and someone pushing through the unknown. That story ...

For nearly two centuries, a small brown frog living in Southeast Asian rainforests was considered a single, well-understood species. It had a name. It had a place in the textbooks. Case closed. Then ...