Australia is home to extraordinary reptiles and frogs, from giant lace monitors to tiny alpine froglets. Over 1,100 reptiles and 250 frog species are found across the Australian continent and islands.

Australian ground frogs take the standard weirdness of frog reproduction and development to the next level...and then to the next-next level. From swallowing eggs to putting tadpoles in pockets, these ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost two-thirds of Australia is privately owned. But most of our scientific understanding of how threatened species are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frogs across Australia are dropping dead in large numbers due to reasons yet unidentified for the second consecutive winter, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. SYDNEY — A species of frog thought to have been extinct for 30 years has ...

Are you STILL trying to find the perfect holiday gift for the person who has everything, or who wants nothing? How about an album featuring the love songs of Endangered Australian frogs? Green and ...

Ever flushed a toilet in the Australian outback and seen a frog staring back at you? These so-called “dunny frogs”—famous for ...

SYDNEY, June 24 – 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 has about 240 frog species, but around 30% of them are threatened by climate change, water pollution, habitat loss, the chytrid fungus, and in a variety of other ways SYDNEY, June 24 ...