A good question! Frogs are amphibians. This means they can’t regulate their own body temperatures and start life as water-dwelling creatures. As they mature, they grow legs and lungs to live on land.

Four populations of California’s foothill yellow-legged frog would be protected with the help of 760,071 acres of designated critical habitat, under a Fish and Wildlife Service proposal made public ...

Frogs leaped into the air and swam for cover as Paul Johnson strolled toward a stream crossing, a Jeep crawling slowly behind him. As the SUV climbed into the Griswold Hills from the San Joaquin ...

As its name suggests, this small frog is native to the Sierra Nevada. Unfortunately, this species has seen population ...

A recent study in the journal Nature Climate Change found that severe increases in aridity caused by climate change is drying out frog habitats across the globe. In fact, unless humans significantly ...

Boulenger’s backpack frog uses one of the strangest reproductive strategies in the amphibian world. Females carry fertilized ...

Green and golden bell frogs used to be everywhere in Australia, until a deadly virus reduced their range by 90%. Then Anthony ...

The federal government will designate more than 10,000 acres in Arizona and New Mexico as prime habitat for the threatened Chiricahua leopard frog. More than a dozen streams and many livestock ...

Seven threatened galaxy frogs ( Melanobatrachus indicus) are gone from a research site in the Western Ghats in Kerala after ...

Frogs have long held a bad rap (at least among some people) for being slimy, even scary, critters, but that's not very fair to these amazing amphibians. There are currently around 7,600 known species ...