Early in development, many animals pick a team—male or female—based on their genetics, and, with time, acquire the ...
It’s frog-eat-frog in the amphibian dating game. An ecologist has captured the moment a female green and golden bell frog attempted to eat a male suitor. Dr. John Gould, from the University of ...
A duplicated gene evolved into a switch that determines sex in frogs, revealing how evolution can safely reshape critical ...
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 ...
Adult green and golden bell frog female consuming other frog species on Kooragang Island, north of Sydney, Australia. It's frog-eat-frog in the amphibian dating game. An ecologist has captured the ...
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 ...
When you think of an animal playing dead, especially in North America, you probably picture the Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana), commonly known in the region simply as a possum. It’s such an ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — City frogs and rainforest frogs don’t sing the same tune, researchers have found. A study released Monday examined why Panama’s tiny tungara frogs adapt their mating calls in urban ...