Scientists have discovered a promising new approach to fighting cancer in the gut bacteria of a Japanese tree frog, with one ...

Chytridiomycosis — a fungal disease that is wiping out amphibians around the world — has jumped across the Panama Canal, report scientists writing in the journal EcoHealth. The news is a worrying ...

With amphibians experiencing dramatic die-offs in pristine habitats worldwide, an alliance of zoos, botanical gardens and aquariums has launched a desperate public appeal to raise funds for emergency ...

Northeast India is home to some of the world's most unique and rare species because it has so many different kinds of plants ...

A bacterium living quietly in the intestines of a tiny tree frog has done something cancer researchers spend careers chasing: ...

SULLIVAN TOWNSHIP-- Two women stood frozen in the inky darkness, their feet planted on the gravel road in rural Ashland County. Shadowy farm fields and forbidding forest surrounded them. Their eyes ...

Scientists in Western Australia have found a tree frog which is bright blue, rather than the usual green, due to a rare genetic mutation. The blue magnificent tree frog was spotted in the Charnley ...

If your backyard is feeling overrun with frogs and toads, it’s not just you, said South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Herpetologist Andrew Grosse. Multiple people have taken to Facebook ...

A Blanchard's cricket frog is a tiny tree frog that was once common in Northern Ohio, but now only found in small pockets of habitat. A research team is studying the cause of the huge population ...

Molly Albecker conducted a tree frog survey in the salty marshes near Bodie Island Lighthouse, but she didn’t think she’d find any frogs. The doctoral candidate and her East Carolina University ...

Frog populations around the world have been falling victim to a deadly infection, but there may be a ray of hope for their future: For the first time Panama's La Loma tree frog has been bred in ...

This frog really lights up a room. The South American polka dot tree frog initially appears unremarkable. But researchers in Argentina recently got a huge surprise when they shone an ultraviolet light ...