Though purple frog tadpoles were described as far back as 1917, it was as late as 2003 when an adult was finally described. However, it had already been known to local communities who had ...

CREDIT: ZSL/Joe Capon. The 33 new froglets were carried and brooded by 11 rescued male frogs. The adult frogs were transported 7,000 miles from Chile to England, while protecting their precious ...

DESCRIPTION: The relict leopard frog is a small, spotted frog with an adult body length of 1.75 to 3.5 inches. The dorsal color is brown, gray, or greenish with greenish-brown spots. A glandular dorso ...

London Zoo is celebrating the birth of 33 Darwin’s frogs, following the zoo’s urgent mission to rescue the critically ...

Spring is filled with so many cool and interesting natural things. The earth is awaking after a long and frozen sleep. Each year I am surprised when I hear my first frogs calling. It always seems ...

Still, the population is teetering on the brink of extinction. Frogs have subsequently disappeared from two of the rediscovered localities and only about 500 to 1,100 adult frogs remain, half at a ...

The warmer the water, the faster the egg development. After hatching, the tadpoles transform into adult frogs in eight to 10 weeks. The chorus frog is among the first of the frog species to emerge ...