According to MassWildlife, amphibians are signaled by the spring rain that it is time to emerge from their winter retreat and ...

As I wrote last week, as spring unfolds, the avian chorus grows, but it won't reach its full volume until mid-May when the ...

This is the time of year when our local amphibians will be migrating back to their natal pools to mate and lay eggs.

Researchers found that wood frog tadpoles can adapt to ranavirus infections by speeding up their growth, potentially ...

A Suffolk County town installed a “tunnel of love” under a busy roadway in an effort to preserve its local frog population — ...

"Here we show that in response to ranavirus, wood frog tadpoles change their growth, development, and resource allocation. This may help tadpoles tolerate the energetic demands of infection or ...

HUDSON VALLEY, N.Y. ( NEWS10) — The annual frog and salamander migration is well underway in the Hudson Valley. Amphibian ...

Now, species like the wood frogs, spring peepers, and grey tree frogs can thrive rather than survive, he said. Their mating calls now fill the airwaves day and night, the local officials said.

All that quacking and chirping represents the efforts of the male frogs to attract a mate. In the case of the “quacking ducks.” the guilty amphibian is the diminutive wood frog (aka Lithobates ...

The frog sat perfectly still on a leaf. Soon, his peeping would join nature’s spring symphony. They’re called spring peepers for a reason, but at that moment with the humans around … no peeping. Only ...