For African Wild Dogs in the Okovango Delta, living with the pack has its ups and downs. You get help with the hunting, and there's safety in numbers, but there's also a lot of compromise. When the ...

The African clawed frog was once used as a living pregnancy test, with results that were about 98% accurate. Then labs shipped it across the world, not knowing it could carry a deadly fungus called BD ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s no wonder, then, that this frog is doing everything it can to evade the boomslang. Native to Sub-Saharan Africa, boomslangs ...

In this video, we see a boomslang snake trying to eat an African bullfrog in South Africa. Boomslang snakes (Dispholidus typus) look rather benign – relatively small with slender bodies and large eyes ...

The Everglades, a sprawling expanse of wetland ecosystem in Florida, is home to an astonishing array of wildlife from the formidable alligator to the elusive Florida panther. However, among the larger ...

African frog clade under the microscope He narrowed his focus to frogs in the clade Afrobatrachia, a group that study co-author David Blackburn, curator of herpetology at the Florida Museum, has ...

The development of hair was of central importance for the evolution of mammals and thus also of humans. However, the evolutionary origin of the genetic program of hair was previously unknown.

The seven essays in Anne Fadiman’s new collection, “Frog and Other Essays” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) are not all amphibious in theme. While the title essay recalls the so-called life of her family’s ...

Soldiers from the 28th Infantry Division who won the innovation category at the U.S. Army’s Best Drone Warfighter Competition receive their award from Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, right, in Huntsville ...

Male Sierran chorus frogs change their breeding calls depending on the temperature, a UC Davis study found. (BenderPhoto, Getty Images) When the time is right, a good love song can make all the ...

It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights: The Muppets are back on TV! But one of them might sound a little different than you're used to. A new version of "The Muppet Show" airs as a ...

The North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher (NCAFF) community is mourning the loss of one of their oldest otters. The aquarium announced that Asta, their oldest Asian small-clawed otter, passed away ...