SYDNEY (Reuters) - Wading through a moonlit pond on Australia's east coast talking to frogs makes Michael Mahony feel like a kid again. The 70-year-old biology professor and conservationist at ...

Australia’s frogs are under threat, and the Australian Museum is asking for your help to halt their decline. This article is brought to you by the Australian Museum. Let’s face it. Too many of us know ...

Jodi Rowley is the Lead Scientist of the Australian Museum's citizen science project, FrogID. She has received funding from the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Perth Zoo, the ...

Newly discovered evidence of Australia’s earliest species of tree frog challenges what we know about when Australian and South American frogs parted ways on the evolutionary tree. Previously, ...

Graeme Gillespie is employed by the NT Government, and is the President of the Australian Society Herpetologists. This research has been funded at various points by: Queensland Government Community ...

Green tree frogs are some of the most commonly seen tree frogs in the world. Two primary species share the specific name “green tree frog”: the American species and the Australian species. Australian ...

You would assume a flood represents a windfall for frogs, right? But new research finds these water-loving amphibians can have too much of a good thing. Frogs need water. Almost all of the world’s ...

Two newly discovered species of Australian frogs may be unable to adapt to the escalating impacts of climate change, raising urgent conservation concerns from scientists. The research, published in ...

Researchers have identified an Australian poison frog that makes its own toxin rather than getting it from food sources. It is the first documented case of a vertebrate that generates its own poison ...

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America. Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species ...