Known for its distinctive "ribbit" call, the noisy Pacific chorus frog is a potent carrier of a deadly amphibian disease, according to new research. Just how this common North American frog survives ...

The eggs from each cross were divided into two pH treatments, five replicates per treatment, each replicate with approximately 25 eggs (mean=24.4 eggs; range=15–51), and reared in 0.9 l opaque plastic ...

Female frogs aren't hopping to mate with every interested male frog, scientists have found. Instead, they are faking their deaths to escape unwanted attention. Female European common frogs were ...

Female European common frogs will play dead to avoid mating during their "explosive" breeding, where several males attempt to mount one female at the same time. When you purchase through links on our ...

The Boston Common Frog Pond will open for the winter season for ice skating on November 21, at 10 a.m. The Frog Pond, managed by The Skating Club of Boston, is located in one of the oldest parks in ...

Eight-year-old Genesis Calderon lost count of the number of plastic frogs she scooped out of the newly reopened frog pond Thursday morning on Boston Common. Calderon said her favorite parts of the ...

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With drone shows every Saturday evening, the park showcases canvas of holiday imagery like snowflakes, festive shapes and winter scenes, all set to music.

Smiles radiated from skaters and spectators alike as people effortlessly glided across the Frog Pond’s ice for the first time this season. Just an hour after the ice rink on the Boston Common opened ...