If you liked this story, share it with other people. Endangered western leopard toads have lost habitat to urban development in Cape Town, and crossing roads during breeding season adds another danger ...

Spring choruses of frogs and toads are in full swing. As temperatures warm, frogs and toads emerge after a long, cold winter and begin their annual serenade. Males call out, advertising their fitness ...

BALTIMORE (AP) - A Johns Hopkins University scientist hit the gym soon after returning from a trip to South Africa and discovered an unexpected workout partner: an endangered-species toad that stowed ...

Western toads have begun to pop their heads above streams adjacent to the Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory in preparation for their great migration. Each year, thousands of toadlets emerge from ...

DISCLAIMER: Please do not try to handle frogs or toads you find outside. Their skin is extremely delicate, and some species of both secrete poison. Be very cautious for your safety and for the ...

Between 35 and 50 leopard frog tadpoles originally were dropped into each pond when the experiments began about four years ago. Now, the East Side pond populations peak at 300 but can drop to as low ...

You don't have to touch the frogs and toads; just listen for their distinctive croaks and chirps. And Friends of the Rouge ...

The Phoenix Zoo recently released 1,000 tadpoles into the Tonto National Forest, part of a program to save the threatened Chiricahua leopard frog. The zoo collects eggs every year, and those eggs ...

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. By Aaron ...

Most everyone recognizes frogs. Frogs, like salamanders and newts, are amphibians. Unlike salamanders, they have made a major evolutionary detour from the body plan of their ancient ancestors. The ...

Not long after the snow melts a procession of peeps, trills, chuckles, chortles, snores and bellows begins in the mid-Michigan outdoors. These are not the sounds of humans recovering from serious ...