After a long and frigid winter, the sound of spring peepers singing from beaver bogs is a welcome one for New Englanders. But ...

Known scientifically as Pseudacris crucifer, the spring peeper’s Latin name comes from the cross-like “X” pattern on its back ...

There have been reported sightings of some freakishly big frogs and other critters on the Truman State University campus.The ...

A familiar amphibian in Ecuador sparked a global revolution in conservation thanks to the Rights of Nature law.

Miní, a wild-born female jaguar, takes an unbelievable journey from the Iberá Wetlands to the Gran Chaco forest to revive a ...

When in Tokyo and Kyoto, buy cute cat things. Japan is like no other country when it comes to feline paraphernalia.

‘Tis the season for the many varieties of amphibians, and April is National Frog Month – a way to bring attention to the need for conservation efforts to protect them. Frogs represent ...

During the day and during dry weather, they may be found hiding out in pipes, basements, tree cavities and other areas that offer moisture and shelter, says Thompson. It may not be possible to ...

There is no class of aquatic worms of red-backed salamanders like other species of amphibians. Spring peepers are tiny tree frogs. Bodies of spring peepers have smooth skin found to be brown, red, ...

But frogs may yet hold clues to killing pain. At least one frog does deploy an opioid: the waxy monkey tree frog (Phyllomedusa sauvagii), whose skin is laced with the peptide dermorphin. Although the ...