Road salt can often wash into nearby wetlands and ponds and hurt freshwater wildlife, but some animals appear to be adapting.

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

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

Imagine disliking winter so much that you appear to die when it begins, only to come back to life in the spring. That’s essentially what the incredible wood frog does (well, almost) to survive ...

It's easiest to identify these creatures by their voice, each distinct: leopard frog, wood frog, chorus frog, a species of gray tree frog, and American toad.

If you’re out on a walk in early spring and you happen to hear clucking, don’t start looking around for barnyard birds. The wood frog is one of the first frog species to emerge in late winter ...

Able to survive at lower temperatures than its relatives in the Lower 48, the wood frog in Alaska has shown to be even more hardy.

Wood frogs and other animals that survive extreme conditions in nature have many applications in medicine, especially in the world of organ transplants, Tessier says.

Wood frogs also sing songs that are easy to identify, but you first have to know that the song is that of a frog. This sound is much lower in pitch than that of the spring peeper and it does sound ...

On a chilly March morning a few days before the vernal equinox, an ensemble of spring peepers sang their steady high-pitched song from a shallow rain-fed pond in Middle Island. Wood frogs added ...

Environment Conservation Land This invasive frog can fit baby turtles inside its mouth American bullfrogs threaten Yosemite's native pond turtles, but there is hope for the reptiles. By Margherita ...