Once mistaken for a different species, reasearchers have confirmed that a frog found in a Florida backyard is actually the invasive Tropical clawed frog.
Glass frogs that live near loud streams will add a friendly wave or "dance" to their love calls to attract mates.
"We wanted to know, do large frogs have large tadpoles and small frogs small tadpoles, or are the sizes between the two decoupled?'"
Why are frogs green? Their color comes from a clever biochemical workaround that combines an odd protein choice and a potential poison in the blood.
Male treefrogs throw off predators teaming up with others to sing out their mating calls in quick succession, researchers say.
The discovery of a 29 million-year-old fossil heralds the coquí frog, the national symbol of Puerto Rico, as the oldest frog in the Caribbean.
Beneath their slick skin, some frog skulls sport spines, spikes, and other skeletal secrets called hyperossification.
Two species of poison frogs from distant parts of the world both feed their young unfertilized, toxin-laced eggs. New research uncovers why.
The mating calls túngara frogs make have an unfortunate side effect: attracting one of their main predators.
"If you blend a computer, you'd end up with tiny bits of computer.... But, lo and behold, the cytoplasm reorganizes."
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