Most amphibians die when exposed to salt — except the crab-eating frog, which thrives with it. Here’s how it rewrote the ...

A duplicated gene evolved into a switch that determines sex in frogs, revealing how evolution can safely reshape critical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frogs have long held a bad rap (at least among some people) for being slimy, even scary, critters, but that's not very fair to ...

How does a thin-skinned, cold-blooded creature survive a below freezing Colorado winter without a fur coat or a ticket south?

Runge learned about coqui frogs shortly after purchasing his home in 2025, when he heard a few calling frogs on his property. Rather than waiting for numbers to increase, he began clearing overgrown ...

It’s not easy being green, as one of our greatest sages is fond of remarking. The latest example of this universal fact is the chytrid fungus, a pernicious pest fond of takingup residence on the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. In the Cretaceous forests of ancient Madagascar, one frog ...

The chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis), or Bd for short, is considered one of the causes of the worldwide ...

A deadly fungus that has wiped out hundreds of amphibian species worldwide may have started its global journey in Brazil.