Playing dead isn't the ultimate ghosting technique. Frogs use "tonic immobility" as a strategy to stay alive during mating ...

Female frogs aren't hopping to mate with every interested male frog, scientists have found. Instead, they are faking their deaths to escape unwanted attention. Female European common frogs were ...

I saw the most amazing thing in my friends’ yard the other day. It was a hot, dry day. The asphalt on her driveway was hot and dry as well - not the place for a worm (there were a few of those baked ...

Two years ago, Juan Díaz Ricaurte was hiking through the mountains of Brazil when a male yellow cururu toad affixed itself to his boot. Díaz Ricaurte gently detached the frog and set it back on the ...

The federal government is an excellent steward of taxpayer money — that is, if you think taxpayers ought to be paying for the study of frog mating calls, or film productions in Pakistan. Kentucky Sen.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. To avoid the amphibian pile-up that often comes with mating, some ...

Well-preserved skeleton of a frog from the Geiseltal region, in Germany. The frog likely died while mating in an ancient swamp.D. Falk Scientists analyzed hundreds of frog fossils in Germany, at one ...

The University of Connecticut is in the midst of frog mating season, which is from early spring to July, Kurt Schwenk, ecology and evolutionary biology professor at UConn, said. Their process of ...