The tadpoles were raised through metamorphosis before being released into native California mountain habitat as part of an ...
LOS ANGELES — The transition from tadpole to juvenile frog is never easy — legs sprout, tails shrink and lungs develop for a life on land, all while being hunted by fish and other predators. Talk ...
A Mississippi couple spent two decades burning land and replanting trees on their private property, not knowing whether their effort would ever be enough to pull one of the world's rarest frogs back ...
The Afia Birago’s puddle frog was discovered in Ghana eight years ago and is already on the brink of extinction ...
SYDNEY, April 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- WILD LIFE Sydney Zoo has announced a groundbreaking achievement in conservation with the success of its first-ever on-site breed for release program. Within just ...
It is the first time the species has successfully bred under human care anywhere in the world.
Inside three water tanks in a tucked-away room at the Aquarium of the Pacific, biologists are tasked with bringing back a population of frogs that once thrived across the state’s mountainous streams ...
The Afia Birago’s puddle frog is no bigger than the tip of a pencil as a froglet - Ben Tapley/ZSL A critically endangered ...
The first documented case in Europe of a crustacean preying on an amphibian reveals a deadly new threat to the endangered ...
When you’re a frog that lives near the roaring waterfalls and mountain streams of Panama, croaking to communicate with other amphibians is a lost cause. The noise of rushing water quickly drowns out ...
Anyone walking through the Tarumã neighborhood in Curitiba (the capital of the state of Paraná, Brazil) today may find it difficult to imagine the area as it was in the past. Between the buildings, ...