The next time you declare that you are “freezing to death,” spare a thought for the wood frog who gets so cold in winter that ...

Cricket frogs can’t walk (or hop) on water like once thought. Their bodies sink below the surface between successive jumps, researchers report in the November Journal of Experimental Biology.

In the clip, you can see the frog preparing for winter by nestling into the leaf litter on a forest floor ... cell dehydration (as water leaves the cells to form ice), and damage to cell internal ...

“Skittering is not actually a well-defined word for this behavior – one naturalist used it to describe a ‘jumping on water’ behavior in frogs in 1949, and since then, it’s been used for ...

Surinam horned frogs achieve their enormous girth by being generally indiscriminate about what they eat. Typical ambush predators, they squeeze their bodies into the forest substrate or leaf ...

Revealing active behaviour that adds to our understanding of the nature of a species. Brandon Güell (Costa Rica/USA) wades through murky water to document a rare frog breeding frenzy. Plagued by ...

The animal was among 40 species in the evaluation whose extinction risk was downgraded. However, researchers found 23 other species to be at a higher risk of extinction than previously thought. This ...

wood frogs have developed one of the most incredible survival strategies. They freeze. As winter comes, they hunker down just under the leaf litter. They begin to produce a special anti-freeze in ...