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LA JOLLA, Calif. (FOX5/KUSI)– The Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego teamed up with several organizations to help give an endangered species of frog a new lease on ...
Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego marked the occasion as its first ever species reintroduction. The frogs were released into the San Bernardino Mountains in a ...
The Atlantic Coast leopard frog, first identified in an industrial section of Staten Island in 2012, is now on the state’s endangered species list. Conservation groups see an opportunity.
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 ...
Nearly 600 California red-legged frog tadpoles that were raised at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach were released into streams in the Santa Monica Mountains, marking a hopeful step in ...
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 ...
As humanity spreads across more of the globe, urban areas sprawl out and push the wild areas of the world further back. Some creatures retreat into the forest and fields, but others adapt to city life ...
The frogs are made using synthetic tissue and mimic properties of a live frog. The smell of formaldehyde in classrooms may soon be a thing of the past as high schools begin to introduce synthetic ...
Following a species rehabilitation effort by the Birch Aquarium, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, UCLA, and others, more than 350 endangered Mountain Yellow-legged Frogs have been released into the ...