The world's amphibians are in trouble. Because of their sensitivity to climate change, habitat loss, and pollution, they may ...

Males of the South American species incubate their young in their vocal sacs. The London Zoo recently established a breeding ...

The construction of a road near Cambridgeshire revealed thousands of frog remains from a 46-foot-long ditch at an ancient ...

The team sampled the frogs’ naturally occurring skin microbes and randomly assigned them to one of six experimental groups: the frogs’ skin microbiomes were either reduced with antibiotics, augmented ...

Researchers found that wood frog tadpoles can adapt to ranavirus infections by speeding up their growth, potentially ...

M from the Bezos Earth Fund to help save 25 frog species through conservation, rewilding, and disease prevention efforts ...

Johnson (2011). Disease and the extended phenotype: parasites control host performance and survival through induced changes in body plan. PLoS ONE 6: e20193. PDF Johnson, P. T. J. and J. Bowerman ...

They collected frogs that demonstrated a heightened resistance to disease and transported these vigorous individuals to sites where they proceeded to establish new, flourishing communities.

World Frog Day 2025 presents us with a chance to take action. Across the globe, events will highlight the importance of frog ...

Meanwhile, nonnative predators like bullfrogs, fishes and crayfish feast on the frog and fungal disease and global forces — from elevated ultraviolet radiation to pesticides to climate change — also ...

African clawed frogs used to be the best human pregnancy tests in the world. Doctors would inject a woman's urine into the back of a female frog; if positive, the frog would lay eggs. Frog or ...