LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Zoo has released 450 tadpoles and 193 subadult southern mountain yellow-legged frogs into the streams of the San Gabriel Mountains in an effort to restore the species ...

As I wandered around a beaver pond one day in mid-September, I noticed something small and dark moving slowly through the grass and weeds. It was a toadlet, just recently transformed from a tadpole.

Tree toads likely evolved to give live birth because they don't live near water. A frog’s lifecycle is likely one of the earliest bits of science that many of us remember learning. They start as eggs, ...

July is a month of early harvest in the garden. Much of the produce; especially the greens, that have been growing through the long days of June can now be gathered. This is also seen with the berries ...

Q. Last year, you provided facts about salamanders. What can you tell us about frogs and toads? How are they different from other animals? What makes them special? A. Salamanders, although abundant in ...

Recently, two species of frogs were discovered on the Indonesian island of Sumatra whose tadpoles have a special feature: their bellies are indented to form suction cups. Tadpoles are the larvae of ...

Australian ground frogs take the standard weirdness of frog reproduction and development to the next level...and then to the next-next level. From swallowing eggs to putting tadpoles in pockets, these ...

Natasha Kruger receives funding from the DSI-NRF Centre of excellence for Invasion Biology, Ambassade de France en Afrique du Sud (France). This study was part of the project Life Control stRategies ...

Some tadpoles don’t poop for the first weeks of their lives. At least, that’s the case for Eiffinger’s tree frogs (Kurixalus eiffingeri), scientists report September 22 in Ecology. Eiffinger’s tree ...