Category: Frog & Amphibians Information & News

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Restoration Of Yellow-Legged Frog In Yosemite Could Take 10 Years

Restoration Of Yellow-Legged Frog In Yosemite Could Take 10 Years

How many years will it take to restore the populations of the endangered yellow-legged frogs back into the Yosemite Valley? According to National Park [...]
Watch This Treefrog Light Up After It Ate A Firefly

Watch This Treefrog Light Up After It Ate A Firefly

For those of you who’ve seen this its probably not too exciting but for those of us who haven’t, well, it is pretty cool.  Ter [...]
Dumpy Frog Tries To Eat Carpet Python In Australia

Dumpy Frog Tries To Eat Carpet Python In Australia

It is usually snakes that eat frogs, but in Australia, the frogs are more aggro than ever. Australian Mark Drescher captured this video of an Australi [...]

3D Image Shows Frog Within An Argentine Horned Frog

Most of us know that the Argentine horned frog (Ceratophrys ornata), aka the Pac-Man Frog has a fairly wide mouth and eats most anything that it can f [...]

7 New Miniature Poison Frogs Discovered In Brazil’s Cloud Forests

The mountainous forests of Brazil have kicked out seven new frog species that are so small they can foot on the tip of your thumb. The frogs are no lo [...]
Frogs Of Australia App For iOS Now Available

Frogs Of Australia App For iOS Now Available

Scientists with James Cook University in Australian have developed an app for Apple’s IOS that quickly identifies a frog species based on its ca [...]
Dusky Gopher Frog Gets 170 Acres In Agreement With Mississippi Developer

Dusky Gopher Frog Gets 170 Acres In Agreement With Mississippi Developer

The dusky gopher frog  (Rana sevosa) has been allotted more than 170 acres of land in southern Mississippi as protected habitat after years of wr [...]
5 Tips To Make Everyday Earth Day For Herps

5 Tips To Make Everyday Earth Day For Herps

Today is “Earth Day” What have you done for herps to make Earth Day everyday? While the day comes once a year, the Earth and its inhabitan [...]
New Species Of Glass Frog Looks Like Kermit The Frog

New Species Of Glass Frog Looks Like Kermit The Frog

Herpetologist Brian Kubicki has discovered and described a new species of glass frog that looks eerily similar (at least the eyes do) to Kermit the Fr [...]

Critically Endangered Lake Oku Clawed Frog Bred At ZSL’s London Zoo In The UK

The Lake Oku clawed frog  (Xenopus longipes) of Cameroon has been successfully bred in captivity for the first time at the ZSL London Zoo in the Unite [...]

Massive Salamander Fossil The Size Of A Car Discovered In Portugal

A huge amphibian that lived more than 220 million years ago was discovered in a lake in Portugal that scientists estimate was the size of a small car [...]
Frog Discovered In Ecuador Shape Shifts Like Star Trek's Changeling Odo

Frog Discovered In Ecuador Shape Shifts Like Star Trek's Changeling Odo

The amphibian world has a shape shifter in Pristimantis mutabilis, a small frog that was discovered in a nature reserve in the Andean cloud forests of [...]

Certain Panamanian Golden Frogs Survive Exposure To Chytrid

Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute who set out to determine if an anti-fungal probiotic treatment could stop the chytridiomy [...]

Andinobates geminisae Dart Frog Successfully Bred In Captivity

A small dart frog that can fit on a dime has been successfully bred in captivity for the first time by scientists working with the Smithsonian Conserv [...]

New Species Of Andean Water Frog Discovered In Peru

A new species of Andean water frog that hails from the Pacific slopes of the Andes Mountains in Peru has been discovered and described in the February [...]
Chinese Officials Busted For Eating Chinese Giant Salamander

Chinese Officials Busted For Eating Chinese Giant Salamander

The Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) is a critically endangered species and now a group of government officials in Shenzhen, China are in [...]
Texas Designates Austin Blind Salamander As Endangered Species

Texas Designates Austin Blind Salamander As Endangered Species

The Austin blind salamander  (Eurycea waterlooensis), native to the state of Texas, has been added to the state’s endangered species list, [...]
Politics Kill 14-Year-Old’s Bill To Name Idaho Giant Salamander as State’s Official Amphibian

Politics Kill 14-Year-Old’s Bill To Name Idaho Giant Salamander as State’s Official Amphibian

Two years ago, Illah Hickman, then a 12-year-old sixth grader sent a proposal to the Idaho State House to designate the Idaho giant salamander (Dicamp [...]
North Carolina Hellbender Salamanders Threatened By Chytrid Fungus

North Carolina Hellbender Salamanders Threatened By Chytrid Fungus

New research shows that the eastern hellbender salamander (Cryptobranchus a. alleganiensis) , the largest salamander in North America (capable of [...]

Indonesian Fanged Frog Gives Birth To Live Tadpoles

A new species of frog that gives birth to live tadpoles has been discovered in the rain forests of Sulawesi Island in Indonesia. The frog, Limnonectes [...]

Lost Frog Species Rediscovered In Costa Rica

The South Pacific stream side frog (Craugastor taurus), which hasn’t been observed in the wild since 1997, has been rediscovered in Costa R [...]

9 New Frog Species Discovered In Western Ghats Region Of India

Researcher S. P. Vijayakumar of the National Centre for Biological Sciences has been studying distribution patterns of herps in India and the Nicobar [...]
Some Hawaiians Becoming Tolerant Of Invasive Coqui Frogs

Some Hawaiians Becoming Tolerant Of Invasive Coqui Frogs

The coqui frog (Eleutherodactylus coqui), a beloved species in its native Puerto Rico and reviled by most in Hawaii where they were introduced, have b [...]
Herp Queries: What Is The Best Pet Frog?

Herp Queries: What Is The Best Pet Frog?

Question: Is there a kind of frog that makes the best pet? I’d like one with the sticky toes that climbs well on your arm, not one of the fat [...]
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