When women are harassed on the street they might avoid eye contact or wear headphones to drown it all out. In the animal kingdom it turns out female frogs also have a tactic to avoid incessant males, ...

Learn all about the White's Tree Frog (also known as the Australian Green Tree Frog) from The Reptile Zoo! These friendly amphibians need moist air and love to eat insects! CBS News says it will no ...

The Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana) is well known for its ability to play dead when under threat from a predator. It's such an iconic scene that anyone or anything feigning death can be said ...

Laura Brannelly receives funding from The Australian Research Council. Alex Wendt receives funding from the Ecological Society of Australia Danielle Wallace receives funding from the Ecological ...

Drawing parallels with other species, not naming names, the voices of female frogs are being drowned out by their much louder male counterparts – so much so we only know how 1.4% of the ladies ...

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America. Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species ...

Some frog and toad species are explosive breeders. This means they have short reproductive periods, requiring them to gather in large numbers to mate. Hundreds, possibly even thousands, of animals ...

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — You know them for their bulging eyes, webbed feet and distinctive raspy call. You've probably seen them (or likely heard them) in your backyard. We're talking about the invasive ...

An ecologist filmed a green and golden bell frog attempting to eat her male suitor while visiting Australia's Kooragang Island Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

The invasive, and elusive, Cuban tree frog has spread throughout Florida, requiring only a puddle of water to breed. With spring rain on the horizon, Dr. Steve Johnson, a professor of Wildlife Ecology ...