This is the time of year when our local amphibians will be migrating back to their natal pools to mate and lay eggs.

The Leyte Chorus Frog is a rare, non-reproducing hybrid caused by deforestation-driven overlap between two frog species, ...

April is the cruellest month,” said Nobel Laureate poet Thomas Stearns Eliot in his 1922 masterpiece, The Waste Land. Many of ...

Sunlight filtered through the trees of a rainforest in northern Peru and illuminated an “iridescent” creature. Its “golden” eyes scanned the surroundings — but it wasn’t the only one looking. Passing ...

The frog sat perfectly still on a leaf. Soon, his peeping would join nature’s spring symphony. They’re called spring peepers for a reason, but at that moment with the humans around … no peeping. Only ...

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great ...

A Suffolk County town installed a “tunnel of love” under a busy roadway in an effort to preserve its local frog population — ...

A greenish frog slightly larger than a quarter and donning a black Zorro mask recently started begging female frogs to have sex.

These habitats, just dimples in the landscape, are known as vernal pools, or as a key researcher from the Massachusetts-based ...

MY DOG and I have been enjoying some urban nature walks of late. A recent visit to the Urban Forestry Center in Portsmouth ...

The Town of Brookhaven had a big problem. Hundreds of spring peeper frogs were trying to cross a two-lane road to breed in a ...

Mink Frog Survey: Mink frogs are only found in northern Wisconsin and often call in the daytime. In June and early July, ...