When there were just two calls, 77% of the frogs hopped toward the speaker playing the longer, more desirable call, per ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tree toads likely evolved to give live birth because they don't live near water. A frog's lifecycle is likely one of the earliest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nectophrynoides luhomeroensis is one of the three newly identified toad species. - John Lyakurwa Scientists have newly described ...

The Natural History Museum in Berlin, Germany, houses a toad specimen collected over 120 years ago by an explorer in Tanzania. It is the non-extinct 'Bibiparous tree toad', Photo. fig0 Recently, an ...

A tree frog is drawing spectators to a Northern Virginia park for its unusual blue coloring.

A curious aspect of tree frogs is that they often lay their eggs on the ground where the risk of predation by natural enemies is greater than in the trees where they live. A research team suggested ...

"Is he a prince in disguise?" Nature enthusiasts are flocking to Huntley Meadows Park in Alexandria to catch a glimpse of the ...

Common toads, with their heavy-set bodies and short limbs, are regarded as typical terrestrial amphibians. “There is no shortage of papers on common toads; they are a very well-studied species,” says ...

The Eiffinger's tree frog (Kurixalus eiffingeri), found on Ishigaki and Iriomote islands in Japan, has a unique biological adaptation: its tadpoles do not defecate during their early developmental ...

Scientists have newly described three extraordinary species of tree toad that leapfrog over the egg-to-tadpole stage. The females give birth on land to dozens of toadlets, each measuring just a few ...

Tree-climbing may be a common behavior among toads, which were previously thought to be largely terrestrial. It is not known why toads climb trees but factors could include searching for food and ...