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 ...

Over the past few weeks, we’ve received a flurry of emails from concerned people who’ve seen sick and dead frogs across eastern Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. One person wrote: About a ...

You would assume a flood represents a windfall for frogs, right? But new research finds these water-loving amphibians can have too much of a good thing. Frogs need water. Almost all of the world’s ...

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 ...

Life in Australia is defined by iconic sounds, like the chortle of the magpie in the evening, the laugh of the kookaburra and ...

Last winter, thousands of dead and dying frogs were found across Australia. Instead of hunkering down and out of sight, frogs were spotted during the day in the open, on footpaths, highways and ...

An endangered frog from the Australian alps is not letting a deadly infectious disease interfere with its love life. University of Melbourne research has found male alpine tree frogs infected with ...