Every summer the same controversy arises between identifying toads and frogs. People will call a toad a frog and a frog a toad. They are very different but in some degrees the same. The word toad ...

Researchers studied the evolution of the body sizes of frogs and their tadpoles. They found that the two life stages do not evolve completely independently of each other as previously thought. If you ...

Frogs display a remarkable diversity of species as a whole, but does the same hold true for their visual abilities? A new study sought to answer this question by collaborating with researchers in ...

Frogs are fascinating animals and, just like bats, are beneficial neighbors. Before we talk about attracting frogs to your yard, I want to dispel a myth about the difference between frogs and toads ...

By studying over 250 toads across five museum collections, and going back over 100 years, researchers have found three new ...

Tadpoles see well underwater, but what happens when they become frogs and live primarily on land? Researchers at York University and several other institutions, curious about the answer, found the ...

Paleontologists working in Patagonia have unearthed the oldest-known fossil of a tadpole—and it was a whopper, measuring in at more than six inches long, the size of an adult human hand. The specimen, ...

A group of researchers from the University of Jyvaskyla and Stanford University were part of an expedition to French Guiana to study tropical frogs in the Amazon. Various amphibian species of this ...