A good question! Frogs are amphibians. This means they can’t regulate their own body temperatures and start life as water-dwelling creatures. As they mature, they grow legs and lungs to live on land.

Frogs have long held a bad rap (at least among some people) for being slimy, even scary, critters, but that's not very fair to these amazing amphibians. There are currently around 7,600 known species ...

Some tadpoles don’t poop for the first weeks of their lives. At least, that’s the case for Eiffinger’s tree frogs (Kurixalus eiffingeri), scientists report September 22 in Ecology. Eiffinger’s tree ...

I raised tadpoles into baby tree frogs but only two completed their metamorphosis and I wanted more meet papaya guava and this one who still needs a name they'll join mango and kiwi but not yet first ...

A curious aspect of tree frogs is that they often lay their eggs on the ground where the risk of predation by natural enemies is greater than in the trees where they live. A research team suggested ...

While most frogs eat a diet rich in insects, one species in Brazil has its own method of nourishment: dunking itself headfirst into a flower's bulb to slurp up its sweet nectar. When the frog comes up ...