If it quacks like a duck, it’s a wood frog. If it sounds like sleigh bells jingling, it’s a spring peeper. If it sounds like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An American bullfrog pokes its head out of the water. (Photo by Karsan Turner for Iowa Capital Dispatch) Several times each summer ...

Several times each summer, Iowans drive set routes at night and turn a discerning ear to the 16 unique frog and toad songs that can be heard across the state. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources ...

Valle Novak shares a lifetime of observing forests, streams and backyard wildlife forms the heart of this reflection on ...

For just a short time each year, visitors to the Bull Run Mountains Natural Area Preserve can search for elusive spotted ...

A wildlife photographer has scooped a prestigious award for his image of a toad taken in a pond near his home. Paul Hobson, ...

Delaware's "Big Night" is an annual spring event where amphibians, mainly spotted salamanders, migrate to vernal pools to breed. This migration is triggered by warm, rainy nights in late winter or ...

A member of a "toad patrol" group says the army of volunteers have helped more than 4,000 toads, as well as "quite a few" frogs and some smooth newts. Milly Kennedy is part of the Henley Toad Patrol ...

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Daylight saving time has begun, meaning the spring season is inching closer. The first day of spring is marked by the spring equinox, also known as the vernal equinox. It happens when the sun shines ...

They used to be classified in the same family as what we call tree frogs, like the Grey Treefrog (another great noisy animal) in genus Hyla, but have been recently reclassified to the genus Pseudacris ...