SYDNEY (Reuters) - Wading through a moonlit pond on Australia's east coast talking to frogs makes Michael Mahony feel like a kid again. The 70-year-old biology professor and conservationist at ...

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Littlejohn’s tree frog has reproduced in captivity for the first time, offering new hope for the survival of this endangered ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frogs across Australia are dropping dead in large numbers due to reasons yet unidentified for the second consecutive winter, ...

Are you STILL trying to find the perfect holiday gift for the person who has everything, or who wants nothing? How about an album featuring the love songs of Endangered Australian frogs? Green and ...

In a remote part of Australia, researchers recently stumbled upon an unusual, blue-skinned tree frog. This individual is a rare genetic mutant of the magnificent tree frog, a large amphibian that’s ...

Researchers have released more than 400 green and golden bell frogs into Canberra’s Mawson Ponds. The plan? These frogs will ...

Ever flushed a toilet in the Australian outback and seen a frog staring back at you? These so-called “dunny frogs”—famous for ...

Someone in northwestern Australia heard a “laughing” sound coming from the backyard. They recorded the sound and submitted it to a citizen science database. Scientists listened to this laugh-like ...

Biologists consider the health of frogs to be indicative of the health of the biosphere as a whole. Frogs have permeable skin that easily absorbs toxins. They require specific aquatic and terrestrial ...

SYDNEY, June 24 – Wading through a moonlit pond on Australia’s east coast talking to frogs makes Michael Mahony feel like a kid again. The 70-year-old biology professor and conservationist at ...

Australia has about 240 frog species, but around 30% of them are threatened by climate change, water pollution, habitat loss, the chytrid fungus, and in a variety of other ways SYDNEY, June 24 ...