What may sound like a spa day for frogs is all part of a global effort to fight the chytrid fungus — the deadly pathogen responsible for what scientists have called the largest disease-driven loss of ...

Frogs leaped into the air and swam for cover as Paul Johnson strolled toward a stream crossing, a Jeep crawling slowly behind him. As the SUV climbed into the Griswold Hills from the San Joaquin ...

It’s been 17 years since the bright yellow Panamanian golden frog ( Atelopus zeteki) hopped through its native habitat. But ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A good question! Frogs are amphibians. This means they can’t regulate their own body temperatures and start life as water-dwelling ...

Up-to-date population estimates are difficult to determine because of environmental restraints preventing access to sites where the frogs are thought to live. The goal of the recent efforts has been ...

Four populations of California’s foothill yellow-legged frog would be protected with the help of 760,071 acres of designated critical habitat, under a Fish and Wildlife Service proposal made public ...

There are over 5,000 species of frogs worldwide—more than 100 in North America alone. Frogs show a tremendous amount of biodiversity in their calls, their coloration, their body type, and their ...

A group of rare 'galaxy' frogs have disappeared and are feared to have been killed after photographers reportedly destroyed their habitats. The tiny star-speckled Melanobatrachus indicus is the only ...

The tragedy of Romeo began long before the frog found fame as the last of his kind. Starting in the 1970s, scientists started noticing something troubling in the amphibian world: the decline and, in ...