Hop through these images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Smithsonian Photo Contest Galleries Photographs selected by Allison Scates Text by Tracy Scott Forson There’s a good chance that ...

Someone in northwestern Australia heard a “laughing” sound coming from the backyard. They recorded the sound and submitted it to a citizen science database. Scientists listened to this laugh-like ...

A video of a screaming cape rain frog encountered near Cape Town, South Africa, is drawing amusement as it makes its way around the Internet—but experts say the footage clearly shows a frog in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frogs have long held a bad rap (at least among some people) for being slimy, even scary, critters, but that's not very fair to ...

Jaques, Nanners and Tubby are all amphibians known as Dumpy tree frogs or White's tree frogs These tree frogs are dumpy, and that’s not meant as an insult; it’s simply what these types of amphibians ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of tree frog on the slopes of a flat-topped mountain in a remote region of the Ecuadorean Andes, which is considered to be one of the richest areas for ...

Researchers have identified two new species of tree frogs with jewel-colored eyes on the Island of Taiwan. The tadpoles of these frogs display a strange reproductive behavior: the tadpole embryos feed ...