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‘A toad is a perfect tenner’: experts recommend wild candidates for new banknotes
Native British wildlife will feature on the next set of £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes, the Bank of England has announced, but it has yet to be decided which creatures will make the cut.
How a deadly fungus could decimate North America’s salamanders
An insidious disease has eliminated dozens of the world’s frog species. Scientists fear a similar plague could be coming for North America’s salamanders.
These frog mating calls may also serve as weather reports
Scientists suggest female frogs listen for changes in the male calls as a signal for when it's warm enough to mate. A Pacific tree frog ( Pseudacris regilla ) male calls at Washington state's Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge.
Romeo, once the last known frog of his kind, died. But this story isn't a tragedy.
Even though the famous frog and his "Juliet" failed to mate, a new discovery raises hope for their species. Romeo was once known as the "loneliest frog in the world," until herpetologists found five additional Sehuencas water frogs during an expedition in 2019.
A new frog species emerges from Peru’s cloud forests — and it’s already at risk
Deep within the cloud forests of the San Martín region of Peru lie two places so high, cold and remote that they remained virtually unexplored for decades. In 2022, and again in 2025, monitors from
Newly discovered toads skip the tadpole stage and give birth to live 'toadlets'
Three newly-identified toad species in Tanzania give birth to live young, skipping the frogspawn and tadpole stages — an "exceptionally rare" trait among toads and frogs.
Frogs evolved a wide variety of vocal sacs to amplify their ribbits
Maybe you've seen frogs with ballooning throats, but what about pop-out poofs and fat ear bumps?
How do frogs breathe and drink through their skin?
Frogs can breathe and drink through their thin skin — but how does that work?
Rare creature lost for 130 years found hiding in Chilean mountains
A frog species thought to have vanished for over 130 years has been rediscovered in Chile, marking a momentous breakthrough for conservationists. First described in 1902 (based on specimens collected in 1893), the elusive Alsodes vittatus had evaded all attempts to re-find it – until now.
‘A toad is a perfect tenner’: experts recommend wild candidates for new banknotes
Native British wildlife will feature on the next set of £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes, the Bank of England has announced, but it has yet to be decided which creatures will make the cut.
How a deadly fungus could decimate North America’s salamanders
An insidious disease has eliminated dozens of the world’s frog species. Scientists fear a similar plague could be coming for North America’s salamanders.
These frog mating calls may also serve as weather reports
Scientists suggest female frogs listen for changes in the male calls as a signal for when it's warm enough to mate. A Pacific tree frog ( Pseudacris regilla ) male calls at Washington state's Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge.
Romeo, once the last known frog of his kind, died. But this story isn't a tragedy.
Even though the famous frog and his "Juliet" failed to mate, a new discovery raises hope for their species. Romeo was once known as the "loneliest frog in the world," until herpetologists found five additional Sehuencas water frogs during an expedition in 2019.
A new frog species emerges from Peru’s cloud forests — and it’s already at risk
Deep within the cloud forests of the San Martín region of Peru lie two places so high, cold and remote that they remained virtually unexplored for decades. In 2022, and again in 2025, monitors from
Newly discovered toads skip the tadpole stage and give birth to live 'toadlets'
Three newly-identified toad species in Tanzania give birth to live young, skipping the frogspawn and tadpole stages — an "exceptionally rare" trait among toads and frogs.
Frogs evolved a wide variety of vocal sacs to amplify their ribbits
Maybe you've seen frogs with ballooning throats, but what about pop-out poofs and fat ear bumps?
How do frogs breathe and drink through their skin?
Frogs can breathe and drink through their thin skin — but how does that work?
Rare creature lost for 130 years found hiding in Chilean mountains
A frog species thought to have vanished for over 130 years has been rediscovered in Chile, marking a momentous breakthrough for conservationists. First described in 1902 (based on specimens collected in 1893), the elusive Alsodes vittatus had evaded all attempts to re-find it – until now.
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