Baby wood frogs must mature quickly because warm weather also wakes up the trees, which will quickly sop up the water in the forest pools.

There must therefore be a change of gene expression between the summer and winter frogs." Because the instructions for an organism are encoded in its genome, sequencing the genome will permit ...

Baby wood frogs must mature quickly, because warm weather also wakes up the trees, and they will make quick work of the water in the forest pools.

The wood frog survives extreme winter temperatures by freezing solid, with its heart stopping for nearly eight months. It uses its natural antifreeze, ...

Previous work on desert frogs had shown that urea helps the animals retain water during dry conditions. And the winter spike in urea probably protects wood frogs from drying out in the snow and ...

Wood frog tadpoles that receive a transplant of green frog bacteria can swim in warm waters, revealing another role for microbiomes: heat tolerance.

A frog species forms 'boy bands' that sing in unison to woo females into their pools, a new study shows. Researchers have recorded wood frogs (Rana sylvatica) at ponds in New Hampshire to learn ...

That’s nothing compared to the wood frog, which doesn’t urinate all winter. In Alaska, wood frogs go eight months without peeing.

A body full of natural antifreeze helps Alaskan wood frogs weather winter’s chill, biologists report August 21 in the Journal of Experimental Biology. Less ice formed in the skin and muscles of ...

Observing baby frogs, or any form of life, over time, as they grow, we come to see how creatures who on the surface seem so foreign to us are, in fact, quite familiar.

Frogs come in a huge variety of shapes, colors, sizes and personalities. Famed naturalist Sir David Attenborough met a multitude of these webbed wonders while filming the Nature episode Fabulous ...

SKANEATELES | Students at State Street Intermediate School haven’t forgotten about Woody, the wood frog they hope to make the official New York state amphibian.