Northwest Trek Wildlife Park said nearly 400 northern leopard frogs raised in its care are now back in the wild. Northern leopard frogs have been endangered in Washington since 1999. According to ...

About 170 Southern mountain yellow-legged frogs, a critically endangered amphibian native to Southern California’s mountainous regions, were recently let loose in their wild habitat, officials ...

Up to only a few inches in length, with a lemon-hued belly, the foothill yellow-legged frog may seem unassuming. But its range once stretched from central Oregon to Baja California. In 2023, it was ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to designate 760,071 acres of critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act for the foothill yellow-legged frog. The areas to ...

Mirror photo by Rachel Foor / AAron Capouellez created the citizen science project Frog Week to increase interest in conservation efforts for pickerel frogs, gray tree frogs and wood frogs, among ...

OTHELLO, Wash. – Some of the frogs leapt straight into the water. Some tried to eat. Others headed for the fence, trying to scale it and escape the small pen made for them. The 300 northern leopard ...

For more than 10 years, the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance has led an effort to bolster the population of a threatened species, the mountain yellow-legged frog. But as the zoo’s facilities have ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — More than 100 endangered northern leopard frogs leapt into the wild last week, after being raised by the Oregon Zoo in their latest conservation effort. The frogs hatched from ...

Conservationists in Argentina’s Patagonia region have helped save the country’s most threatened amphibian, the El Rincon stream frog, a species whose entire existence centers on a single warm stream ...

A moor frog rests calmly near wetland vegetation, blending into its surroundings. This scene reflects the quiet balance of ...

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 ...

In nature, size is often misleading. Some of the most powerful defences on Earth belong not to large predators, but to ...