Category: Frog & Amphibians Information & News

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New Species of Fanged Frog Discovered In the Philippines

New Species of Fanged Frog Discovered In the Philippines

The frog, Limnonectes cassiopeia has been collected more than 12 times over the last 20 years but were thought to be juveniles of the Luzon giant fang [...]
New Frog Species of the Genus Cacosternum Discovered in South Africa

New Frog Species of the Genus Cacosternum Discovered in South Africa

Cacosternum cederbergense differs from other similar species in that it doesn’t have the dark line or streak from the eye to the iris. [...]
ALERT: Bill to Add Herps and Fish to the Animal Welfare Act

ALERT: Bill to Add Herps and Fish to the Animal Welfare Act

This will add reptiles, amphibians, fish, and cephalopods “as animals” under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), meaning the USDA must develop new regulatio [...]
High Numbers Of Red-Backed Salamanders Found In Northeastern U.S. Forests

High Numbers Of Red-Backed Salamanders Found In Northeastern U.S. Forests

The researchers estimate that there are about 5,300 salamanders in every football field-sized patch of forest in the northeastern United States [...]
Researchers Give Nausea To Australian Crocodiles To Prevent Cane Toad Ingestion

Researchers Give Nausea To Australian Crocodiles To Prevent Cane Toad Ingestion

In an effort to reduce mortality of the apex predators, scientists have trained the crocodiles to avoid ingesting cane toads by giving them an upset s [...]
Boreal Toad Tadpoles Discovered At Colorado Reintroduction Site

Boreal Toad Tadpoles Discovered At Colorado Reintroduction Site

The toad has experienced decline due to factors such as the chytrid fungus, which is devastating amphibian populations around the world. [...]
Northern Quoll Genetically Engineered to Resist Cane Toad Toxins

Northern Quoll Genetically Engineered to Resist Cane Toad Toxins

Since the introduction of the cane toad in the 1930s, the population of the northern quoll has dropped by 75 percent. [...]
USARK Alert: Light Bulb Ban, West Mifflin, PA Proposes Ban On Almost All Animals

USARK Alert: Light Bulb Ban, West Mifflin, PA Proposes Ban On Almost All Animals

This poorly drafted ordinance seeks to ban all “animals,” most “pets,” and also has limits for dogs, cats, and birds. [...]
Nonprofit Petco Love Gives $35,000 Grant to J&R Aquatic Animal Rescue

Nonprofit Petco Love Gives $35,000 Grant to J&R Aquatic Animal Rescue

The grant will enable J&R Aquatic Animal Rescue to acquire a vehicle the rescue will use during its Exotic Pet Surrender events. [...]
Chytrid Fungus May Have Chink In Its Armor

Chytrid Fungus May Have Chink In Its Armor

The researchers are currently studying how the BdDV-1 virus works, how it infects the fungus and how it gets into the cells of the fungus [...]
Researchers Record Two Red-tailed Coral Snakes Competing For Same Caecilian

Researchers Record Two Red-tailed Coral Snakes Competing For Same Caecilian

The predation event took place on a dirt road in Western Colombia's Valle del Cauca Department, a rainforest habitat in which both species are known t [...]
Ancient Frog Species Named After Kermit the Frog

Ancient Frog Species Named After Kermit the Frog

“Because this animal is a distant relative of today’s amphibians, and Kermit is a modern-day amphibian icon, it was the perfect name for it.” [...]
Why Dart Frog Poison Can Kill You So Quickly

Why Dart Frog Poison Can Kill You So Quickly

According to the researchers, the poison instantly cramps the body's muscles, makes the heart beat erratically and ultimately causes cardiac arrest. [...]
Ringed Caecilian Mothers Feed Their Offspring Milk

Ringed Caecilian Mothers Feed Their Offspring Milk

The hatchlings congregated around the tail of the mother. And it was at the tail that a milky secretion was discharged and vigorously eaten by the off [...]
New Odorous Frog Species Discovered in China

New Odorous Frog Species Discovered in China

The proposed English name of the frog is the Leishan Odorous frog Odorrana leishanensis sp. nov [...]
New Fanged Frog Species Discovered in Indonesia

New Fanged Frog Species Discovered in Indonesia

The frog, Limnonectes phyllofolia sp. nov. has a unique reproductive strategy in which the male of the species guards the egg clutches. [...]
Pet Industry And Michigan University Researchers to Mitigate Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans Spread In Amphibians

Pet Industry And Michigan University Researchers to Mitigate Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans Spread In Amphibians

Researchers with Michigan State University and pet industry partners will work to study disease mitigation strategies that will hopefully minimize the [...]
Frogs Evolved Millions Of Years Later Than Previously Thought

Frogs Evolved Millions Of Years Later Than Previously Thought

The researchers created the model using hundreds of genetic markers of 5,242 frog species, and based on that data, has shifted the date in which frogs [...]
Study Suggests Frogs Of The Genus Eleutherodactylus Migrated Over Water From Caribbean to Florida

Study Suggests Frogs Of The Genus Eleutherodactylus Migrated Over Water From Caribbean to Florida

Florida retains the most complete fossil record of anurans from North America that extends from the Oligocene to the Pleistocene eras, researchers say [...]
Oregon State University Gives Large Herp Collection To University of Michigan

Oregon State University Gives Large Herp Collection To University of Michigan

Most of the Oregon State University specimens belong to two groups of snakes; garter snakes and water snakes; and two groups of salamanders comprised [...]
Josh’s Frogs Accepting Applications For Amphibian Grant Program

Josh’s Frogs Accepting Applications For Amphibian Grant Program

The public will be invited to participate in the grant program via public vote after seven grant recipients are selected. [...]
World’s Amphibians Most Threatened Vertebrate Class, Study Says

World’s Amphibians Most Threatened Vertebrate Class, Study Says

Since 1980, 37 amphibian species have gone extinct, with the most recent extinctions being the the Chiriqui harlequin frog and the sharp snouted day f [...]
NARBC Arlington and CITES Amphibian Trade Review

NARBC Arlington and CITES Amphibian Trade Review

When a nonnative species is listed under ESA, even domestically born and bred animals can no longer be sold in interstate commerce by private breeders [...]
Updates to Endangered Species Act, Lacey Act Amendments

Updates to Endangered Species Act, Lacey Act Amendments

Phil and Garrett discuss the potential additions to the Endangered Species Act, as well as the ever-threatening Lacey Act Amendments [...]
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