Have you ever wondered how city life affects animals like frogs? A new study reveals that urban Túngara frog tadpoles develop faster —but end up being smaller — than tadpoles from forests, probably ...
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Zoo has released 450 tadpoles and 193 subadult southern mountain yellow-legged frogs into the streams of the San Gabriel Mountains in an effort to restore the species ...
Hundreds of golden frog tadpoles have hatched as part of the Golden Frog Project. The Project aims to serve as Noah's Ark until a solution to control a fungus is found. Hundreds of golden frog ...
An array of factors contributed to the disappearance of these amphibians, including climate change and predators.
July is a month of early harvest in the garden. Much of the produce; especially the greens, that have been growing through the long days of June can now be gathered. This is also seen with the berries ...
The venue: a remote creek in the San Gabriel Mountains. The attendees: federal ecologists and zoo staffers. The guests of honor: 500 wriggling tadpoles. The cause for celebration: A homecoming for one ...
It was happy hour at the “Frog Shack,” a tiny building at the Los Angeles Zoo offering all the amenities that Southern California’s rarest — and perhaps fussiest — amphibians might need to survive.
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 ...
Researchers have identified a new species of poison-dart frog, Ranitomeya hwata, in the remote bamboo-forest of Alto Purus National Park located in eastern Peru. This newly discovered amphibian is the ...