Hundreds of volunteers have joined a "Frog Patrol" initiative in a forest near the Polish capital of Warsaw to help ...

My neighbor stopped me at the fence a few years back and watched me struggling to stake a young apple tree branch down with ...

Smithsonian and global partners are reintroducing Panamanian golden frogs and other amphibians while learning to combat chytrid fungus.

I have never seen a shred of scientific evidence indicating that mothballs or any of the commercial snake repellents (which ...

Researchers have released more than 400 green and golden bell frogs into Canberra’s Mawson Ponds. The plan? These frogs will fight deadly chytrid fungus by using new ‘saunas’ and ‘spas’ that kill off ...

Once common along coastal lowland areas of eastern New South Wales and Victoria, an amphibian chytrid fungus, along with habitat fragmentation, degradation, and the disappearance of large portions of ...

Male Sierran chorus frogs change their breeding calls depending on the temperature, a UC Davis study found. (BenderPhoto, Getty Images) When the time is right, a good love song can make all the ...

Many animal mutations have been documented in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) following the infamous nuclear disaster in 1986, including Eastern tree frogs with darker skin that wards off radiation ...

ALTOS DE CAMPANA NATIONAL PARK, Panama — Brian Gratwicke’s lunch box was full of frogs. Kneeling on the muddy rainforest floor, the biologist opened his red Coleman cooler and scooped one up. It was a ...

Could guts save your butt? A new study reports that bacteria found in the intestines of Japanese tree frogs show remarkable promise in treating colorectal cancer. A research team from the Japan ...

What we know so far: Scientists have uncovered a naturally occurring gut bacterium from common tree frogs that can completely eradicate cancerous tumors in lab animals. The organism even outperforms ...

Frog gut bacterium eliminates cancer tumors in mice with a single dose By Bronwyn Thompson December 16, 2025 The Japanese tree frog (Hyla japonica) hosts a bacterium that kills tumors from the inside ...