Campaigners fighting to stop a housing development in Suffolk over fears for the UK's biggest urban toad colony have welcomed a move to delay the project.
A physicist and a conservationist from The University of Manchester are heading for the rain forests of Costa Rica in a bid to understand more about a deadly fungus that is killing amphibians around the world.
Female spadefoot toads flout the general evolutionary rule of not breeding with other species. Under some conditions they mate with other species to help boost the survival rates of their offspring.
Zoologist Andrew Gray from Manchester Museum has rediscovered Isthomhyla rivularis in the remote forests of Costa Rica in Central America many years after it was last seen.
The Amazon rainforest may be more resistant to rising temperatures than has been believed, but researchers say it is unclear how the forest would respond to a long term drought.
Hellbenders prefer stream environments with large, flat rocks and plenty of crayfish. Juvenile hellbenders are susceptible to predation from fish, herons and larger hellbenders. Adults can perish from an area when sediment coats the rocky stream bottom.
The yellow-legged frog population in the Willamette Basin or Oregon has gone from very abundant to almost completely extirpated in less than 50 years. A few dozen breeding-age yellow-legged frogs in two sites are all that remain.
A study suggests nearly all 162 land-breeding frog species living on Caribbean islands originated from a single frog species about 30- to 50-million years ago.
Melbourne Water will contribute $60,000 to the City of Whittlesea after pleading guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court to pollution offences. The cash will go towards protection of the critically endangered growling grass frog.
Biologists released 68 gopher frog tadpoles and four newly-metamorphosed gopher frogs recently in an artificial pond at the Williams Bluffs Preserve in Georgia. The release marks the start of aneffort to establish a self-sustaining gopher frog population
India harbours 230 known species of amphibians, which include frogs and caecilians. The Western Ghats region is unique in amphibian diversity due to extraordinary endemism and special evolutionary relationships the amphibians of the area have with other b
For a number of years, reports have circulated that frog and toad populations have drastically decreased world wide. Why? Some explanations are apparent. With the destruction of tropical rain forests (a haven for tropical species), it is inevitable that t
Scientists knew that frogs don't produce the toxic compounds themselves, but rather acquire them from their diet. For instance, poison frogs raised on a diet of fruit flies—which contain no alkaloids—quickly lose their dangerous slime.
Up to half of the world's 6,000 amphibian species are so threatened by disease, pollution and climate change that the globe's zoos and aquariums plan this week to declare 2008 The Year of the Frog to rally international support.
Gluttony may protect spotted salamander larvae from becoming prey of the bigger the bigger marbled salamander larvae. Spotted salamander larvae in ponds with many marbled salamanders overeat to become too big to be prey.
Long-toed salamanders are getting their own tunnels through a national park in southwestern Alberta, ending the days when parks staff and local residents would scoop up salamanders to help them survive a deadly road crossing. Parks Canada is spending $4
In the heart of Jerusalem, a new species of amphibian was discovered. It was a decade before it was officially recognized. Unfortunately, the new tree frog's natural habitat was destroyed even before its discovery was officially recognized, and it may alr
The newts of the Zagros Mountains, especially the genus Neurergus, are extremely sensitive to environmental change because they live in marginal conditions. It is likely that the rate at which newt species are declining in abundance has been underestimate
Deforestation of the Amazon rain forest in Brazil fell by about a third in the 12 months through July to the lowest rate in at least seven years. An estimated 9,600 square km (3,707 sq miles) of the world's largest rain forest were cleared in the year end
Emergency workers are hunting a crocodile which has escaped from a travelling circus in southern Ukraine. There have been a number of sightings of the animal, including a photo in a local newspaper, but all attempts to capture it have so far failed. The c
Marsh Road in Milton, PA has been a dead end since the endangered eastern spadefoot toad was discovered. Plans to upgrade the road were brought to a screeching halt when the eastern spadefoot toad, which was declared endangered in 2005, emerged on the sce
Opponents of a drag strip, proposed for 192 acres next to the nature preserve that used to be the Fernald uranium foundry, have enlisted the aid of the amphibian that lives on the property. As many as 18 species of salamanders, other amphibians and reptil
FROGS are being put up for adoption after hitchhiking to Sydney in cases of tropical fruit and pot plants. Many of the "banana box frogs" found a new home on Friday night at a meeting of a frog fanciers group. Before they can be released to their new owne
A major threat to Tasmania's unique frog species has breached the borders of the South-West World Heritage Area for the first time. New research to be published by zoologist Matthew Pauza has placed the fungal disease chytrid at two sites within the remot
Five endangered species of reptiles and amphibians in the Pinelands will have concrete tunnels as part of their habitat under a highway-widening plan finalized by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. A $135 million project to widen 17 miles of the Garden St
A study of frogs in Vermont finds that those living near farms are more than twice as likely as those living elsewhere to have deformities like missing legs. Yale University ecologist David Skelly said he decided to look at Vermont frogs because the state