Four species of frogs and one toad species live in the swampy marsh behind our home. They are bird food, the kind that provides a show for a watchful birder. It's easiest to identify these creatures ...

For most people, discovering a frog living in your fence post would make you feel either kind of creeped out or kind of charmed. For one guy in Australia, it was a challenge: He decided to make it the ...

If you’re trudging through the high-altitude forests of northern Vietnam and you hear bird song, you might want to check the trees for frogs. Yes, that’s right: frogs. A new species of tree frog has ...

Puerto Rican coqui frogs were accidentally introduced to Hawaii in the 1980s, and today there are as many as 91,000 frogs per hectare in some locations. What does that mean for native wildlife?

December 2023 was certainly an unusual month in the Northland. Not only did we have a small amount of snow — only about 5 inches (normal is about 18) — this follows a record-setting snowy December ...

"Poison Dart Frog Mimics Gain When Birds Learn To Stay Away." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2006 / 03 / 060309185915.htm (accessed November 28, 2025).

Long time ago, the small and big animals lived in peace and harmony. They made the elephant to be their king. At one time it rained heavily and this made it impossible for other animals to engage in ...

If you want to honor the truly deserving dads this Father’s Day, send a box of bugs to the zoo. That’s right, says Steven Green, University of Miami behavioral biologist — the really blue-chip dads in ...

In nature, there are winners and losers. The winners gain survival and reproduction, while the losers generally die. To gain an advantage, winners may adopt strategies that involve elements of ...