Four species of frogs and one toad species live in the swampy marsh behind our home. They are bird food, the kind that provides a show for a watchful birder. It's easiest to identify these creatures ...

Puerto Rican coqui frogs were accidentally introduced to Hawaii in the 1980s, and today there are as many as 91,000 frogs per hectare in some locations. What does that mean for native wildlife?

If you’re trudging through the high-altitude forests of northern Vietnam and you hear bird song, you might want to check the trees for frogs. Yes, that’s right: frogs. A new species of tree frog has ...

For most people, discovering a frog living in your fence post would make you feel either kind of creeped out or kind of charmed. For one guy in Australia, it was a challenge: He decided to make it the ...

Ifrita kowaldi, a blue-capped handful with the tree-poking habits of a nuthatch, concentrates in its feathers and skin the same alkaloids that defend poison dart frogs. This explains why the bird’s ...

Coquí frogs are invasive species in Hawaii. But they don’t seem to bug the islands’ native and nonnative birds. Jason G. Goldman reports. Coquí frogs. They’re named for the sound they make. And though ...

"Poison Dart Frog Mimics Gain When Birds Learn To Stay Away." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2006 / 03 / 060309185915.htm (accessed November 28, 2025).

December 2023 was certainly an unusual month in the Northland. Not only did we have a small amount of snow — only about 5 inches (normal is about 18) — this follows a record-setting snowy December ...

AUSTIN, Texas--Studying neotropical poison dart frogs, biologists at the University of Texas at Austin uncovered a new way that the frog species can evolve to look similar, and it hinges on the way ...