Teresa Camacho Badani's boots brimmed with water after slogging through flowing streams in Bolivia's mountainous cloud forest. It had been a taxing day searching for an elusive frog that potentially ...

Water frogs have emerged as a compelling model in evolutionary biology due to their unusual modes of hybridization and reproductive genomics. Interspecific crosses between parental species have given ...

In the past two decades, water frogs have spread rapidly in Central Europe. Using a new statistical model, researchers have now been able to show that local species such as the Yellow-bellied Toad and ...

Communication requires a sender, a receiver, and a message. But communication doesn't take place in a vacuum. Often, there are unintended receivers listening in and unintentional messages getting ...

While basically all frogs are semi-aquatic to some degree, some species spend nearly all of their lives underwater! Though they are quite rare, there are several notable varieties of nearly fully ...

Peru’s rare and endangered Titicaca water frogs are in even more trouble now, after 10,0000 of them turned up dead along the Coata River in Puno. The river, which feeds into Lake Titicaca, serves as a ...

We have reached that time of year when windows are open and the sounds of nature are once again allowed to drift into our homes. During the daytime, we hear birds singing with excitement as the ...

Indigenous water frogs can be crowded out by immigrant or imported species. This is the finding of a Franco-German study. The scientists investigated water frog populations in France and Northern ...

Water from air Desert-dwelling animals often get creative in their search for water, and earlier laboratory experiments had suggested that some species of lizards, spiders and frogs could draw water ...

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 ...

A clutch of critically-endangered water frogs rescued from a muddy puddle in Chile’s driest desert has birthed 200 offspring at the country’s national zoo, the Chilean government announced on ...