SYDNEY (Reuters) - Wading through a moonlit pond on Australia's east coast talking to frogs makes Michael Mahony feel like a kid again. The 70-year-old biology professor and conservationist at ...

SYDNEY, June 24 – Wading through a moonlit pond on Australia’s east coast talking to frogs makes Michael Mahony feel like a kid again. The 70-year-old biology professor and conservationist at ...

Researchers have identified an Australian poison frog that makes its own toxin rather than getting it from food sources. It is the first documented case of a vertebrate that generates its own poison ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Eastern dwarf tree frog covered in seeds. Amphibians are not known for their seed dispersal the way that birds or mammals are, ...

Are you STILL trying to find the perfect holiday gift for the person who has everything, or who wants nothing? How about an album featuring the love songs of Endangered Australian frogs? Green and ...

SYDNEY, June 24 (Reuters) - Wading through a moonlit pond on Australia's east coast talking to frogs makes Michael Mahony feel like a kid again. The 70-year-old biology professor and conservationist ...

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Australia has about 240 frog species, but around 30% of them are threatened by climate change, water pollution, habitat loss, the chytrid fungus, and in a variety of other ways SYDNEY, June 24 ...

For a long time, the Coastal Banjo frog kept out of sight. But it found a way to make its presence known. It’s distinctive mating call echoing the pluck of a banjo spring and earning it the nickname ...

A new study into the mating and nesting practices of a common Australian frog has found they partner up to eight males sequentially -- the highest recorded of any vertebrate. A groundbreaking new ...

Some Australian frogs create their own insect repellent, some resembling rotten meat and others roasted cashew nuts or thyme leaves, researchers find. Frogs produce a number of chemicals in their skin ...

Frogs need water. Almost all of the world’s 7,900 known frog species breed in fresh water. And when it rains, these amphibians erupt into a chorus of calls – croaks, trills, cheeps and bellows – to ...