THE SANTA ROSA PLATEAU ECOLOGICAL RESERVE, Calif. — The scientist traipses to a pond wearing rubber boots but he doesn’t enter the water. Instead, Brad Hollingsworth squats next to its swampy edge and ...

Frogs need water. Almost all of the world's 7,900 known frog species breed in fresh water. And when it rains, these amphibians erupt into a chorus of calls—croaks, trills, cheeps and bellows—to ...

Frogs have been on the decline in the Chicago area. The health of the frog population tells us a lot about the health of our environment. Laura Cripe grew up hiking in LaBagh Woods on Chicago’s North ...

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 these amazing amphibians. There are currently around 7,600 known species ...

The jewel-like lakes of the High Sierra in Yosemite National Park are awe-inspiring sights. But for more than a hundred years they've also been biologically disrupted, stocked each year with ...

For more than 10 years, the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance has led an effort to bolster the population of a threatened species, the mountain yellow-legged frog. But as the zoo’s facilities have ...

Hop through these images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Smithsonian Photo Contest Galleries Photographs selected by Allison Scates Text by Tracy Scott Forson There’s a good chance that ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...