We have reached that time of year when windows are open and the sounds of nature are once again allowed to drift into our homes. During the daytime, we hear birds singing with excitement as the ...

Along with three other zoos, Omaha, Memphis and Dallas, the Detroit Zoo released more than 300 zoo-born dusky gopher frogs into the wild at Mississippi’s Ward Bayou Wildlife Management Area this ...

The venue: a remote creek in the San Gabriel Mountains. The attendees: federal ecologists and zoo staffers. The guests of honor: 500 wriggling tadpoles. The cause for celebration: A homecoming for one ...

Hospitals celebrated leaplings, the babies born on leap day, in adorable fashion: adorning newborns heads with knitted frog hats. The chances are slim, about 1 in 1,461, of being born on a leap day, ...

Kermit the Frog was born October 18, 1936 in Pontotoc, Mississippi. This is not a late April Fool’s joke. This is a strange but true story that is a result of several circumstances that all worked ...

The global trade in frogs spread the lethal chytrid fungus, which is decimating frogs around the planet, and it now looks as if that trade also may have created the disease in the first place. Rhys ...

Twenty-five dusky gopher frogs that were bred at the Detroit Zoo's National Amphibian Conservation Center were released in Mississippi's Ward Bayou Wildlife Management Area this month. The event was ...