Dan Wells, professor of biology and biochemistry at the University of Houston, and his team are rummaging the campus undergrowth this summer in search of the Rio Grande chirping frog. The tiny ...

Deep in the rainforests of Madagascar, scientists have discovered seven new tree frog species that emit noises that researchers said sound closest to some iconic and high-pitched effects from “Star ...

MOSS BLUFF, La. (AP) — Fifth-grader A.J. Williams of Moss Bluff already has a scientific publication to his credit. The 126-word-long geographic distribution note in “Herpetology Review” reports that ...

Jumping spiders, a tiny chirping frog and an elegant striped gecko are among 56 species believed new to science discovered during a Conservation International Rapid Assessment Program expedition to ...

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Months of old-fashioned scientific fieldwork—more than 2,000 surveys of chirping frog calls, hundreds of photos of individual frogs and tiny tissue samples taken from them—has helped define the range ...

As a general rule, frogs are thought to be differentiated from toads (among other things) by the fact that they typically live in permanent bodies of water, while the habitats that toads select are ...

A Brazilian torrent frog stakes his small claim by the side of the stream, where he spends the day uttering a high-pitched chirp. When a rival male gets too close, he lets out a series of peeps and ...

As a general rule, frogs are thought to be differentiated from toads (among other things) by the fact that frogs typically live in permanent bodies of water, while the habitats toads select is less ...