SYDNEY, June 24 – Wading through a moonlit pond on Australia’s east coast talking to frogs makes Michael Mahony feel like a kid again. The 70-year-old biology professor and conservationist at ...

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Running, jumping burrowing or even tree-climbing, frogs can be found in almost any Australian landscape – desert claypans, freezing mountains and inner-city suburbs. This stunning selection from more ...

Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species of tree frog challenges what we know about when Australian and South American frogs parted ways on the evolutionary tree. Previously, ...

Are you STILL trying to find the perfect holiday gift for the person who has everything, or who wants nothing? How about an album featuring the love songs of Endangered Australian frogs? Green and ...

You would assume a flood represents a windfall for frogs, right? But new research finds these water-loving amphibians can have too much of a good thing. Frogs need water. Almost all of the world’s ...

Frogs in northern Australia have to find a way to survive months of cold, dry climate. Their solution? Hang around outside just long enough to trap condensation, which they use to hydrate themselves.

A new study into the mating and nesting practices of a common Australian frog has found they partner up to eight males sequentially -- the highest recorded of any vertebrate. A groundbreaking new ...

Researchers have identified an Australian poison frog that makes its own toxin rather than getting it from food sources. It is the first documented case of a vertebrate that generates its own poison ...

Frogs need water. Almost all of the world's 7,900 known frog species breed in fresh water. And when it rains, these amphibians erupt into a chorus of calls—croaks, trills, cheeps and bellows—to ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Wading through a moonlit pond on Australia's east coast talking to frogs makes Michael Mahony feel like a kid again. The 70-year-old biology professor and conservationist at ...