A recent study in the journal Nature Climate Change found that severe increases in aridity caused by climate change is drying out frog habitats across the globe. In fact, unless humans significantly ...

Quick Take Boulenger’s backpack frog females carry fertilized eggs in a dorsal pouch, providing protection and moisture.

As its name suggests, this small frog is native to the Sierra Nevada. Unfortunately, this species has seen population ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated more than 1,500 acres in St. Tammany Parish as critical habitat for the dusky gopher frog, despite the protestations of the family that owns the land ...

There are over 5,000 species of frogs worldwide—more than 100 in North America alone. Frogs show a tremendous amount of biodiversity in their calls, their coloration, their body type, and their ...

Scientists from the University of Delhi have discovered two new slender-armed frogs from the remote mountain habitats of ...

A group of rare 'galaxy' frogs have disappeared and are feared to have been killed after photographers reportedly destroyed their habitats. The tiny star-speckled Melanobatrachus indicus is the only ...

A good question! Frogs are amphibians. This means they can’t regulate their own body temperatures and start life as water-dwelling creatures. As they mature, they grow legs and lungs to live on land.

Four populations of California’s foothill yellow-legged frog would be protected with the help of 760,071 acres of designated critical habitat, under a Fish and Wildlife Service proposal made public ...

The mountain yellow-legged frog once thrived in the Sierra Nevada, but today there is less than 100. The yellow-legged frog is a popular topic with researchers and was once an abundant amphibian ...

The federal government will designate more than 10,000 acres in Arizona and New Mexico as prime habitat for the threatened Chiricahua leopard frog. More than a dozen streams and many livestock ...