Yosemite toad by Lucas Wilkinson, U.S. Forest Service. Photos are available for media use. Livestock grazing and other activities on Forest Service lands have contributed to the declines of both ...

There are a lot of critters in Texas that folks down here have given interesting, if somewhat puzzling hybrid names. Yes, we have both toads and frogs but in spite of football traditions and other ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— In accordance with a landmark agreement with the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today granted Endangered Species Act protections to Sierra ...

Once common along highland streams in Costa Rica and western Panama, the variable harlequin frog, Atelopus varius, is now endangered throughout its range, thanks in large part to a disease caused by ...

A team of herpetologists at the Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz just reported that a tiny frog found only in a hilltop forest in southern Bahia, Brazil, may be the smallest vertebrate in the world ...

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More than a third of the 7,000-odd living species of frogs and toads are found in rain forests around the world. But the fossil record for amphibians from these kinds of wet, tropical environments has ...

To some, they’re cute personalities in kids’ movies and books. To others they look slimy and warty. But by taking time to observe, you’ll find that frogs and toads are amazing amphibians. All toads ...

Hundreds of volunteers have joined a "Frog Patrol" initiative in a forest near the Polish capital of Warsaw to help ...

One of the smallest frogs in the world, the Macaya breast-spot frog (Eleutherodactylus thorectes) is only found on the Formon and Macaya peaks in southwestern Haiti. The species is expected to decline ...

CARS, not chainsaws, may be the biggest threat to the survival of North American frogs and toads. Globally, habitat loss is assumed to be the main factor eating away at amphibian populations, but in ...