Conservation plans for amphibians often focus on activities at the breeding site, but for species that use terrestrial habitats for much of the year, an understanding of nonbreeding habitat use is ...
A common species of Asian tree frog may actually be two separate species according to new genetic data collected by an international group of scientists. If the two groups of frogs are confirmed to be ...
Many recent amphibian studies have involved marking individuals using visible implant elastomer (VIE), but the effects of VIE on the movements or survival of amphibians in the wild are unknown. Our ...
It looks dead for months, its body packed with ice. But when spring arrives, this unassuming frog thaws back to life.
Their movement is a form of "porpoising," leaping in and out of the water to travel Cricket frogs can’t walk (or hop) on water like once thought. Their bodies sink below the surface between successive ...
WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering whether to ban the importation of amphibians and their eggs without a permit to stop the easily spread chytrid fungus, which has ...