Alejandro Vélez: That call has two main functions. The same call helps to repel other males and to attract females. One of ...

Frog-gigging can be one of the most exciting adventures available for outdoors enthusiasts on a late spring night.

The Leyte Chorus Frog is a rare, non-reproducing hybrid caused by deforestation-driven overlap between two frog species, ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. These frogs put the “group” in “group sex”—and that helps them thrive. Of all vertebrates, gray foam-nest tree ...

That change in the environment could be driving a change in how the hourglass tree frogs reproduce. “It gives a window on what caused the movement to reproducing on land to occur,” Touchon ...

Interestingly, we once studied the reproductive behavior of male frogs and found that freezing diminished their mating performance. After thawing, the frogs weren't as vocal or active, and they ...

We have adjusted to the curtailment of our liberties and discrimination in various forms—social, racial, ethnic, immigrant ...

Natalia Mesa was previously an intern at The Scientist and now freelances. She has a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Washington and a bachelor’s in biological sciences from Cornell ...

In Arizona, the Chiricahua has declined more than any other leopard frog. Chiricahua leopard frogs need permanent water for reproduction, but that's increasingly hard to come by: Southwest riparian ...

Officials with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission have moved the beginning of frog gigging season from its traditional ...