As frogs around the world continue to disappear—many killed by a rapidly spreading disease called chytridiomycosis, which attacks the skin cells of amphibians—one critically endangered species has ...

Popular tree frogs -- Introduction -- General information -- Acclimation -- Housing -- Heating and cooling -- Feeding -- Water -- Breeding tree frogs -- Notes on ...

Tree holes: You probably don't think about them much. They're often difficult to see and easy to ignore. But to the frog species Frankixalus jerdonii, they are everything. These little brown frogs lay ...

A curious aspect of tree frogs is that they often lay their eggs on the ground where the risk of predation by natural enemies is greater than in the trees where they live. A research team suggested ...

A good question! Frogs are amphibians. This means they can’t regulate their own body temperatures and start life as water-dwelling creatures. As they mature, they grow legs and lungs to live on land.

If you’ve recently adopted a pet frog or are planning on taking one in and aren’t sure how to care for it yet, you probably have all kinds of questions about their needs in captivity. From figuring ...

Jaques, Nanners and Tubby are all amphibians known as Dumpy tree frogs or White's tree frogs These tree frogs are dumpy, and that’s not meant as an insult; it’s simply what these types of amphibians ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — For more than a century, two mysterious tree frog specimens collected by a British naturalist in 1870 and housed at the Natural History Museum in London were assumed to be part of a ...

Many Jamaicans have a somewhat superstitious fear of anything slippery and slimy — in other words, amphibians and reptiles. Lizards (in particular the endemic Jamaican Croaking Gecko, Aristelliger ...