A squeaky frog that became an internet sensation is added to a global list of species at risk of extinction.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A batch of 1,000 rare tadpoles raised at the Phoenix Zoo landed in a new home at the Grasshopper Tank in the Tonto National Forest ...

A UNSW and Australian Museum study using data from a citizen science project finds 70 percent are vulnerable to housing, agriculture, roads and recreation. We urgently need to consider human impacts ...

Some frogs have evolved features so strange that scientists struggle to explain them, and a few look less like amphibians ...

Some harlequin frogs have lost their poison—and their ability to defend themselves. Scientists are on the case.

Other islands have their own unique frogs. On the Papua New Guinean (PNG) island of New Britain lives Boulenger's wrinkled ground frog (Cornufer boulengeri), a species whose males are 40 times lighter ...

In the dim twilight hours, many frogs may be capable of emitting a faint green or orange glow. A survey of hundreds of frogs in South America shows that far more frogs are biofluorescent than ...

A chocolate treefrog that looks like a Freddo. Burrowing frogs which live in trees. Long-nosed frogs named after Pinocchio. Frogs which go straight from egg to froglet without stopping at tadpole. And ...