a-z-animals

In Brazil’s Mysterious Frog Crash, the Species That Survived Were the Ones Carrying the Fungus

In the 1970s, a catastrophe hit amphibians across the country of Brazil. Frogs, in particular, seemed to experience the brunt of it. Scientists began noticing a sharp decline in frog populations that ...

Tree Frog’s Adorable Reaction To Getting Sprayed With Water Has Everyone Smitten

A small Cuban tree frog.NurPhoto / @wildlifetypaguy loves everything about frogs and nature, and shares videos of both ...
Game Rant

Fortnite: Frog Statue Puzzle Guide

Jake Fillery is an Editor (Guides) at GameRant and has been helping provide day-one coverage for the latest AAA and live-service games. If there’s someone to guide you through every Call of Duty ...

See what new businesses opened in October in Milwaukee's north suburbs

A bookstore, a fast-food chain, a pet supply store and a specialty pet shop opened in communities north of Milwaukee in ...
Associated Press

An endangered frog nursery in LA cares for hundreds of tadpoles until they’re ready for the wild

The transition from tadpole to juvenile frog is never easy — legs sprout, tails shrink and lungs develop for a life on land, all while being hunted by fish and other predators. Talk about growing ...
Indiatimes

In 1931, Cuban tree frogs arrived in Florida in cargo crates; nearly 100 years later, they threaten native frogs

How did they get here? It was nobody’s plan. These frogs hitched a ride on cargo ships, tucked inside crates coming from the Caribbean. The timing is muddy, as records don’t nail down the exact date, ...
KTLA

These strange, flat frogs can ‘see’ with their fingers, biologists say

UCLA biologists have made an incredible new discovery about a species of strange, flat frogs with minuscule eyes in the Amazon basin that catch their prey in an unusual way. The water in the Amazon ...
Washington Post

A rare blue tree frog is drawing loads of spectators to a Virginia park

Just after sunrise on a recent hot morning, Mar Acevedo waited on a trail overlooking the grassy marshes of Huntley Meadows Park in Alexandria. The retired public high school teacher had first seen ...
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This dumpy tree frog looks cute but eats surprising prey

This new Guinea dumpy tree frog may look adorable, but it has a much bigger appetite than its appearance suggests. The wildlife handler explains that these frogs enjoy insects but can also eat larger ...
StarTribune

Tree frogs add to the soundtrack of Minnesota’s summer nights

As summer progresses, the evening chorus may fill with the sound of crickets, trilling toads and tree frogs. Two identical-looking species — tiny Cope’s gray treefrogs and Eastern gray treefrogs — can ...
Duluth News Tribune

Northland Nature: Breeding time for gray tree frogs

Northeastern Minnesota is the home of a low number of reptiles and amphibians (herps). Among reptiles, two kinds of snakes are common: garter and red-bellied, with a third one, the ring-necked snake, ...