By studying over 250 toads across five museum collections, and going back over 100 years, researchers have found three new ...

This amazing time lapse shows frog eggs transforming into tadpoles in a mere 30 seconds. The spawn of frogs is so impressive and so sudden and so perfect that it’s easy to forget how complicated it is ...

When 8-year-old Ava Calsbeek spotted some wood frog eggs in a pond near her family’s home in Hanover, she noticed they were black on one side and white on the other. Ava showed her dad, Ryan Calsbeek, ...

Scientists are studying Nectophrynoides frogs that give birth to live young. This unique reproductive method helps them ...

Scientists have never seen anything quite like this before. It’s a newly discovered species of fanged frog that gives direct birth to live tadpoles instead of laying eggs. It isn’t that rare for ...

Learn how frog eggs and fish eggs differ in structure, habitat, development, and survival, and what they reveal about the ...

Glassfrogs may be somewhat see-through, but they have still managed to a hide an important secret—they are dedicated mothers and fathers that invest time in brooding their eggs. Smithsonian scientists ...

For the first time since the 19th century, an enigmatic species of egg-eating tree-dwelling frog was found in the wild in the mountains of Northeastern India. The hidden diversity of this group of ...

Things got a bit loud when wildlife ecologist Katy Delaney discovered signs that frogs were breeding. For five years, she had kept watch over the rare tadpoles and young frogs in the Santa Monica ...

Have you ever wondered how city life affects animals like frogs? A new study reveals that urban Túngara frog tadpoles develop faster —but end up being smaller — than tadpoles from forests, probably ...

You’re probably familiar with the story of how frogs make more frogs. It goes like this: When a lady frog and a dude frog love each other very much, they play a little game of piggyback that results ...

Tadpoles don’t cry to get their way. But some of them sure can beg. Each bout of hungry-baby drama among mimic poison frogs (Ranitomeya imitator) occupies both parents for hours. The tadpoles get so ...