Poison dart frogs exhibit extraordinary parental devotion, with males guarding eggs and transporting tadpoles to safe ...

Tadpole species that lost their lungs through evolution never re-evolve them, even when environmental change would make it ...

Nectophrynoides comprise only about one percent of all frogs and toads, but that number is officially increasing. In a study published in the journal Vertebrate Zoology, biologists describe an ...

After October’s flooding, great egrets returned to Maricopa’s farmlands, drawn by new wetlands that formed across the desert’s low-lying washes.

Some tadpoles break the rules of biology. Instead of developing lungs as they grow, they lose them entirely and still manage ...

An international team of researchers have identified three new species of enchanting, pustular, tree-dwelling toads from Africa. Their solution for having offspring away from water? Skipping the ...

Researchers have developed an enhanced LC-MS/MS method capable of quantifying 18 steroids—including key corticosteroid and sex steroid hormones, as well as intermediates involved in corticosteroid ...

Three new toad species bypass the tadpole stage entirely, giving birth to fully formed babies in isolated mountain forests.

An international team of researchers have identified three new species of enchanting, pustular, tree-dwelling toads from Africa. Their solution for ...

All that hopping is a survival tactic. The alternative is becoming the proverbial frog in a pot of boiling water, except the ...