In the lab, female frogs were less likely to choose preferred males as mating calls increased, potentially giving other males a better shot.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Pacific tree frog (Pseudacris regilla) male calls at Washington state's Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge. Cyril Ruoso, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dittrich told Snopes via Zoom that Rana temporaria is an "explosive breeding" frog, meaning that they reproduce in a brief window ...

A study from the University of California, Davis, found that temperature affects the sound and quality of male frogs' mating calls. In the colder, early weeks of spring, their songs start off ...

Climate change could be remixing the beat at the pond. A new study from UC Davis researchers, who listened closely to a male frog’s mating call, found that warmer temperatures lead to a faster beat, ...

For years, various posts on social media have claimed that some female frogs play dead to avoid mating. While the behavior might be most closely associated with the Virginia opossum (Didelphis ...

Andamanese Charles Darwin’s frogs breed like no other frog: clinging upside down to the side of partially flooded tree cavities. This inverted addition to the Kermit Sutra may be positioning the frogs ...