As I wrote last week, as spring unfolds, the avian chorus grows, but it won't reach its full volume until mid-May when the ...

Wood frog tadpoles in infected ponds show faster growth and development, possibly to survive ranavirus or escape before dying ...

The world's amphibians are in trouble. Because of their sensitivity to climate change, habitat loss, and pollution, they may ...

Researchers found that wood frog tadpoles can adapt to ranavirus infections by speeding up their growth, potentially ...

The next time you snivel, "I am freezing to death," you might want to consider the wood frog, which withstands such bone-chilling cold in winter that its heart stops beating yet does not die.

All that quacking and chirping represents the efforts of the male frogs to attract a mate. In the case of the “quacking ducks.” the guilty amphibian is the diminutive wood frog (aka Lithobates ...

In addition to surviving extreme cold, this tough little frog tolerates a good measure of dehydration, no doubt an adaptation to its life away from water. For more information about the wood frog ...

Frogs started emerging from the forest, faster than the volunteers could count, on their way to the vernal pools where they ...

An aggregation of wood frog egg masses in a pond following spring breeding. Wood frogs are explosive, synchronous breeders that arrive at temporary freshwater ponds soon after snowmelt to reproduce ...