Science taught me something today. Tree frogs might be the best athletes on the planet, pound for pound. Look. I know that sounds stupid. They can't windmill a basketball at 40 years old like LeBron ...

A good question! Frogs are amphibians. This means they can’t regulate their own body temperatures and start life as water-dwelling creatures. As they mature, they grow legs and lungs to live on land.

Spring and most of summer have been monsoon season in the Columbus area. Average rainfall from April until now has been well above average. During a stretch in June, rain fell on 19 consecutive days.

Many creatures can be found in the milkweed, from monarchs to milkweed beetles, from aphids to lady beetles. Birds, such as the yellow warbler and the indigo bunting, often use milkweed seeds as ...

We had been waiting impatiently for the end of the winter cold. We wanted to hear the spring concert of the tree frog chorus. Finally, on April 25, as we drove the Beauty Lake Road, we heard that ...

Tree holes: You probably don't think about them much. They're often difficult to see and easy to ignore. But to the frog species Frankixalus jerdonii, they are everything. These little brown frogs lay ...

As frogs around the world continue to disappear—many killed by a rapidly spreading disease called chytridiomycosis, which attacks the skin cells of amphibians—one critically endangered species has ...

An invasive species is defined as “a plant, animal, or microbe that is found outside of its native range, where it negatively impacts the ecology, economy, or quality of human life.” The Cuban tree ...