New York state environmental officials are planning to update their list of endangered and threatened species as part of a push to protect animals that are at the brink of extinction. Those include ...

Efforts to recover the population of the northern leopard frog at the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge are bearing fruit, according to NonStop Local. The northern leopard frog has survived winter ...

A new species of frog discovered on Staten Island just might have been named in honor of its New Yorker status. The Rana kauffeldi, or Atlantic Coast Leopard Frog, was given its own name and a unique ...

Alan Zhou / OPB Plans to develop a new population of endangered frogs are hopping along in Eastern Washington. This month, nearly 100 northern leopard frogs reared at the Oregon Zoo were released into ...

A batch of 1,000 rare tadpoles raised at the Phoenix Zoo landed in a new home at the Grasshopper Tank in the Tonto National Forest, part of ongoing efforts to boost the population of the threatened ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Staten Island’s largest environmental group is pushing for the inclusion of a rare local frog on the state endangered species list, as the frog’s numbers are dwindling in the ...

The federal government will designate more than 10,000 acres in Arizona and New Mexico as prime habitat for the threatened Chiricahua leopard frog. More than a dozen streams and many livestock ...

Northern leopard frogs were found near the site of what would be one of state’s largest fossil fuel operations. Hanophy and hundreds of Aurora residents are hoping the imperiled vertebrate will help ...

In the gardens and parks of Toyota City, Japan, a small creature turned out to be a new species. Getty Images/iStockphoto To many across the islands of Japan, small tree frogs, or amagaeru, are a ...