A batch of 1,000 rare tadpoles raised at the Phoenix Zoo landed in a new home at the Grasshopper Tank in the Tonto National Forest, part of ongoing efforts to boost the population of the threatened ...

The lowland leopard frog is not federally endangered, but it is protected at the state level, Murray said. The county considers it a species of conservation concern. Many of its native creeks and ...

Between 35 and 50 leopard frog tadpoles originally were dropped into each pond when the experiments began about four years ago. Now, the East Side pond populations peak at 300 but can drop to as low ...

Despite the arid desert climate, the relict leopard frog once thrived in the region before the growth of Las Vegas changed its habitat. During the 1950s, it became what was thought to be the first ...

A photograph of a giant, green-and-yellow tadpole longer than a human hand turned up in an X post on Feb. 12, 2025. At the time of this reporting, the post had received more than 296,000 views. At the ...

Park ranger Scott Cleaves was taking his usual night walk surveying Gilbert’s Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch when he saw something he didn’t expect to find. He shined his flashlight on the mummified ...

Tadpoles see well underwater, but what happens when they become frogs and live primarily on land? Researchers, curious about the answer, found the eyes of tadpoles undergo a surprising number of ...

TORONTO, June 28, 2022 – Tadpoles see well underwater, but what happens when they become frogs and live primarily on land? Researchers at York University and several other institutions, curious about ...