If your backyard is feeling overrun with frogs and toads, it’s not just you, said South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Herpetologist Andrew Grosse. Multiple people have taken to Facebook ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frogs have long held a bad rap (at least among some people) for being slimy, even scary, critters, but that's not very fair to ...

In rainforests in Gabon, amphibians with larger toes relative to their body length are found higher in the forest canopy. Leptopelis boulengeri, commonly known as the Victoria Forest Tree Frog, is ...

Researchers may have discovered the first example of a frog that pollinates flowering plants. By Sofia Quaglia On warm evenings near Rio de Janeiro, you might find milk fruit trees covered in brownish ...

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — You know them for their bulging eyes, webbed feet and distinctive raspy call. You've probably seen them (or likely heard them) in your backyard. We're talking about the invasive ...

If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described ...

Scientists in Western Australia have found a tree frog which is bright blue, rather than the usual green, due to a rare genetic mutation. The blue magnificent tree frog was spotted in the Charnley ...

An elusive tree frog with a never-before-seen color mutation, was spotted and photographed in a remote part of northwestern Australia Blue mutation magnificent tree frog (Ranoidea splendida). The ...

A study into an endemic tree frog in Sri Lanka, Taruga eques, has found wide variations in both color and dorsal marking. The authors of the study say this high variance, or polymorphism, squares with ...

Red-eyed tree frog. Photo by Rhett Butler. In recognition of Amphibian Ark winning mongabay.com’s 2011 conservation award, our pictures of the day this week will focus on amphibians. The red-eyed tree ...

Laura Brannelly receives funding from The Australian Research Council. Alex Wendt receives funding from the Ecological Society of Australia Danielle Wallace receives funding from the Ecological ...