Amphibians face increasing risks from habitat loss, climate change, pollution and emerging diseases. One such disease, ranavirus, has been linked to mass die-offs of frogs and salamanders worldwide.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An invasive toad species has been wreaking havoc in the waters of northern Australia, but scientists may have found a solution for ...

Tadpole tails regenerate when lost (1). In this study, researchers found that to do so, tadpoles increase the production of genes for proteins that shuttle glucose into the cell (2). Glucose feeds ...

There is a description of this process that everybody learns and that understates it substantially. The description is that a tadpole grows legs, loses its tail and becomes a frog — a sequence of ...

Tadpoles grow pumped-up tails when stressed out by the threat of predators nearby, a new study finds. These beefed-up tails help the tadpoles escape predators such as dragonfly larvae, according to ...

The world's amphibians are in trouble. Because of their sensitivity to climate change, habitat loss, and pollution, they may be the canary in the coal mine for the nascent anthropogenic mass ...

A 161 million-year-old fossil, linked to a line of extinct frog-like amphibians, is the oldest tadpole ever found. By Asher Elbein The metamorphosis of a frog from baby to adult is one of nature’s ...

The Indian bullfrog, which is native to the Indian sub-continent, has recently invaded the Andaman archipelago. This group of islands lies about 1200 km east of the Indian mainland. The bullfrog was ...

The discovery in Patagonia shows that frogs have had a tadpole stage for at least 160 million years. Here’s how the ancient frogs compare to those of today. Tadpoles and adults of the extinct frog ...

Carnivorous bullfrog tadpoles don’t even spare their own. Author supplied The Indian bullfrog, which is native to the Indian sub-continent, has recently invaded the Andaman archipelago. This group of ...