As you may have concluded from that nightly ribbetting sound echoing from ponds, marshes and the damp spots in your yard: The frogs are back. And that's a good thing. Volunteers with Metro's amphibian ...

Spring peepers are tiny brown frogs that are currently creating a loud chorus in south-central Indiana wetlands. Beanblossom Bottoms Nature Preserve is a prime location to listen to the frog chorus ...

Ahhhh Spring! The thought of spring conjures up many sights, smells and sounds. After a long, hard winter, that red, red robin is a sight for frozen eyes to many and a sign of things to come for all.

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 ...

Many of us think of the first signs of spring as being visual the first bird of spring or the first wildflower of spring. While there is plenty of debate on what species of bird constitutes the first, ...

Yesterday (3/4 – Monday) was the first day I heard the “spring peepers” or chorus frogs. They are among the first sounds of spring. In the evening…I sometimes walk out to the end of the driveway to ...

During a recent lecture on evolution, I had to explain the differences between three different processes known as geographic, temporal and behavioral isolation. Geographic isolation is the easiest of ...

Frog mating calls change with temperature and may signal when ponds are safe for breeding, offering insight into climate change.

Researchers noted that as water became hotter in ponds, mating calls of male frogs became quicker and more desperate.

For frogs, love is noisy. Each spring, swamps, marshes and ponds across the United States become the amphibian equivalent of raucous singles bars as a host of damp-skinned hopefuls from many species ...