The animal kingdom is full of fascinating tricks for enduring sub-freezing temperatures. Birds, for example, often just take ...
Long before winter seals the forest under ice, certain frogs begin preparing for a transformation that defies basic biology.
Wood frogs — Lithobates sylvaticus, also known as Rana sylvatica — live farther north than any other amphibian, even beyond ...
Green and golden bell frogs used to be everywhere in Australia, until a deadly virus reduced their range by 90%. Then Anthony ...
Nearly 20 years ago, the last known Cascades frog disappeared from Lassen Volcanic National Park. Now researchers are ...
The southern Darwin's frog has seen its population fall by 90 per cent in Chile's Parque Tantauco forests due to the spread ...
Researchers discovered that a poison frog species described decades ago was based on a mix-up involving the wrong museum ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. In the Cretaceous forests of ancient Madagascar, one frog ...