What if you could detect allergens even better, so that before you even put something in your mouth, you knew whether it was ...

“To jump on the water surface, you have to have your legs retracted and ready to push down again by the time you’re ...

Click on the right arrow to see more views of this colorful tree frog. Biology in the background The red-eyed tree frog is native to Central America and northwestern South America. They breed readily ...

I write about the world of biology. Long before we had the luxury ... more unconventional means of preservation: they would drop a frog in the bucket of milk. All they knew was that this frog ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the world of biology. The extremely rare Indian purple frog doesn’t really look like a frog. It’s also a living fossil ...

A small brown frog squats motionless in a den of green moss. It inhales no breath, has no heartbeat, yet it is not dead. Rock hard and icy to the touch, this speckled North American wood frog is ...

Cricket frogs were once thought to hop on the water’s surface. They actually leap in and out of the water in a form of locomotion called porpoising.

Some bacteria may treat the powerful toxins bathing poison dart frog skin like a buffet ... researchers report December 4 in Current Biology. Some of those microbes even seem to dine on the ...

He currently holds a position at the National Institute for Basic Biology. The team placed a Japanese striped snake and a black-spotted pond frog together to study how the snake assaults its prey ...