New research shows that forest connecting different types of habitats may help frogs fight a deadly amphibian fungus ...
A new study has found that when deforestation and land use change break up key habitats vital to amphibian life cycles, those ...
The U.S. Forest Service will postpone a tree-thinning project intended to decrease the wildfire risk at Lake Tahoe after a lawsuit raised concern about its effect on an endangered frog species.The ...
In 99 Nights in the Forest, even the frogs are dangerous. These poisonous creatures burst from the ponds and waterways around the forest during the night and attack anyone who gets close to their lair ...
A calling male túngara frog with a large inflated vocal sac. By 2050, almost 70 percent of the world’s population will live in urban environments, according to the United Nations. But as cities spread ...
An expedition to one of Earth’s most remote corners yielded a remarkable new species, but the discovery comes with an urgent warning Imagine a forest so high, cold and remote that almost no scientist ...
This week a report showed off the newest "world's oldest" rain forest frogs. "It was exhilarating to hold these small fossils up to the light to reveal the frogs within," said David C. Blackburn, one ...
The Harapan forest on the Indonesian island of Sumatra is teeming with frog species, one of which was just described last year. These amphibians are threatened by a coal-trucking road that the ...
ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST >> Wayne Burnes had hoped he could pass on to his children the thrill of climbing Williamson Rock. Though it is only about an hour away from his Simi Valley home, that may ...
ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST (KABC) -- Close to 1,000 mountain yellow-legged frogs and tadpoles were released into a tributary in the Angeles National Forest. The Rana muscosa species was listed as ...
Urban sophistication has real sex appeal -- at least if you're a Central American amphibian. Male frogs in cities are more attractive to females than their forest-frog counterparts, according to a new ...
More than a third of the 7,000-odd living species of frogs and toads are found in rain forests around the world. But the fossil record for amphibians from these kinds of wet, tropical environments has ...