The latest onslaught on winter weather is hardly the most appropriate time to talk about frogs, unless you’re the education/wildlife specialist for a Soil and Water Conservation District. As I’m ...

Q. You once wrote that blue pigment is not known to exist in any terrestrial or freshwater animals with backbones. I found a blue bullfrog in a marsh in Virginia. It was mostly blue with some gray ...

Color in leopard frogs is determined by a gene that has two forms, or alleles, G and g. Each frog has two alleles, and frogs with genotypes GG or Gg are green, while gg frogs developmental rates ...

Frogs are supposed to be green — right? Just about every frog portrayed in movies, cartoons and children's books is green. Just about every ceramic and toy frog is green. Kermit is green. Ask anyone ...

The colorful markings of poison dart frogs vary depending on where the frogs live. Now, a new study using thousands of fake-frog decoys finds that these markings evolved hyper-locally, explaining why ...

What explains the vivid colors of the strawberry poison-dart frog? Piotr Naskrecki / Minden Pictures In the animal world as in fashion, bright color makes a bold statement. The vivid hues of the ...

While poking around the garden the other day I found an adorable visitor. A small frog called a gray tree frog (Hyla versicolor) resting among the brightly colored flowers. This amazing little ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frogs are found across the U.S. in ponds, lakes, rivers, pools, and wetlands. Pig frog females tend to reach larger sizes than ...

I camped at Teal Lake in the Park Range to photograph fall colors, but I also enjoyedthe ospreys that were hunting trout and the numerous leopard frogs at the lakeshore. TealLake is like many other ...