Playing dead isn't the ultimate ghosting technique. Frogs use "tonic immobility" as a strategy to stay alive during mating ...

Hummingbirds are one of the most fascinating and beautiful creatures to watch in your garden. Follow these tips to welcome ...

Frog gut bacterium eliminates cancer tumors in mice with a single dose By Bronwyn Thompson December 16, 2025 The Japanese tree frog (Hyla japonica) hosts a bacterium that kills tumors from the inside ...

In a new study, 79 percent of black-spotted pond frogs successfully consumed the northern giant hornet. Shinji Sugiura / Kobe University For a mouse several times its size, a sting from the “murder ...

This week, JPL scientists reported that glaciers speed up and slow down at predictable intervals. CERN's ATLAS experiment detected evidence for the decay of a Higgs boson into a muon-antimuon pair.

Frogs to the rescue! Murder hornets have relatively few natural predators, but new research has revealed that the black-spotted pond frog is one of them. Kobe University ecologist Shinji Sugiura found ...

Here’s something to remember next time you’re grousing about the long line at your favorite sandwich shop: Some animals have to put up with a lot more to secure a tasty lunch. Case in point, a study ...

Chytrid fungus is a deadly pathogen plaguing amphibians in an ongoing global pandemic, with the potential to kill off entire populations. But in one threatened Australian frog species, the infection ...

ALTOS DE CAMPANA NATIONAL PARK, Panama — Brian Gratwicke’s lunch box was full of frogs. Kneeling on the muddy rainforest floor, the biologist opened his red Coleman cooler and scooped one up. It was a ...