“To jump on the water surface, you have to have your legs retracted and ready to push down again by the time you’re ...

Cricket frogs are pretty small and would fit on the thumb of an adult human's hand, yet they possess extraordinarily fast motion. To record how they were traveling over the water, the team set up ...

Cricket frogs were once thought to hop on the water’s surface. They actually leap in and out of the water in a form of locomotion called porpoising.

Following a 7,000-mile-long rescue mission for conservation, 33 tiny Southern Darwin’s frogs ( Rhinoderma darwinii) were born ...

Conservationists and government officials in Chile have collected the few remaining Loa water frogs (Telmatobius dankoi) from a dwindling stream near the city of Calama, the Global Wildlife ...

Water frogs, particularly those in the genus Pelophylax, are a diverse group of amphibians that face significant ecological challenges due to habitat loss, pollution, and the introduction of non ...

The low winter flows cause drying of off-channel wetlands, forcing the highly aquatic frog into the main channel where it is exposed to predation from brown trout and many other animals. “The ...

the tadpoles emerge from the water and inhabit the leafy litter of the forest. Other members of the treefrog family include the northern cricket frog, found in a few areas south of the Catskills, and ...

Amphibians are small vertebrates that need water, or a moist environment, to survive. The species in this group include frogs, toads, salamanders, and newts. All can breathe and absorb water ...