Scientists have discovered a promising new approach to fighting cancer in the gut bacteria of a Japanese tree frog, with one ...

A bacterium living quietly in the intestines of a tiny tree frog has done something cancer researchers spend careers chasing: ...

When the cold weather comes, I bundle up in a sweater and explore the snow. But my frog friends are never around then. In fact, I’ve never seen a frog in a sweater. I asked my friend Erica Crespi why ...

It had been five years since the first of the frog eggs had been moved, carefully plucked from Mexico's Baja Peninsula and transported by cooler to Southern California. Anny Peralta-Garcia was getting ...

Amphibian species around the world are threatened with extinction by the deadly fungal disease, chytridiomycosis. A simple, low-cost solution to provide warm conditions enabling frogs to clear the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The extremely rare Indian purple frog doesn’t really look ...

An unassuming elevator ride to the basement of the Gilbert Biology Building Tuesday transported a group of undergraduates to an unfamiliar and tropical unknown: a lab housing over 500 frogs. The ...

“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County” not only launched Mark Twain’s literary career but would also later inspire an annual frog jumping competition in Angels Camp, Calif. This year marked ...