World Frog Day 2026 highlights how frogs support ecosystems and why their decline signals environmental problems.

The spotted salamander, wood frog and spring peeper — the flagship species — can be found crossing roads in early spring.

Amphibians such as frogs and salamanders are incredibly sensitive to changes in their environment. Whether it’s a temperature change or a change in water quality, amphibians are likely to notice. New ...

For nearly 400 million years, amphibians have led a highly successful double life on Earth, foraging on terra and reproducing in water. They survived the extinction of the dinosaurs and any number of ...

The world’s frogs, salamanders, newts and other amphibians remain in serious trouble. A new global assessment has found that 41% of amphibian species that scientists have studied are threatened with ...

A Northampton County road will closed for a month beginning Tuesday to allow frogs, toads and other amphibians to cross to ...

Even though they had the ability to evolve and survive for hundreds of millions of years -- since before the time of the dinosaurs and through many climatic regimes -- the massive, worldwide decline ...

The health of amphibians is commonly used to give a rough assessment of pollution levels in an area, but an analysis of more than 20,000 toxicity studies now suggests that these creatures are ...

Some 252 million years ago, the largest extinction event occurred at the end of the Permian age. It wiped out almost 90 percent of all life in water. So far researchers had assumed that the ecosystems ...

A Panamanian park has lost around 40 percent of its amphibian species in the past decade, with some dying out before biologists had even learned of their existence, according to research published ...