Every spring, visitors are serenaded by a chorus of frogs emanating from Stillman’s cattail marsh. And almost every person comments, “Listen to those spring peepers.” Guess what? Almost everyone who ...

Spring is filled with so many cool and interesting natural things. The earth is awaking after a long and frozen sleep. Each year I am surprised when I hear my first frogs calling. It always seems too ...

A chorus in the wetlands! At Boot Lake Nature Preserve in Elkhart, IN, Evie discovered the trills of the Western Chorus Frog. These tiny frogs may be hard to spot, but their calls are a sure sign that ...

The spring continues to unfold ahead of schedule. This was seen in March when sap flowed at the beginning, crocuses bloomed by the middle, and the large number and variety of waterfowl were here by ...

A common West Coast frog, the Pacific chorus frog, may be spreading the deadly fungal infection that is devastating other amphibians, a new study suggests. Not only did the tiny chorus frogs survive ...

Scientists in our area are hoping that citizen scientists and students can help them learn more about the Mountain Chorus Frog. The frog isn't well known to biologists. A goal of this study is to ...

Frogs need water. But new research into how bushfires and floods impact them finds they can have too much of a good thing.

IT began with a chub in a water pail. The chub had been intended for pickerel bait and was a last survivor; so it was given to me, aged four. I adored that chub! It was the first live thing that I had ...