A deadly fungal disease has wiped out dozens of frog species worldwide. But new research on disease-resistant frogs in Yosemite National Park could help bring other species back from the brink.
A mark should be made on the tube at a point equal to about one-third to one-half of the frog's body length. Adult frogs have a short esophagus, and using a tube that is too long may injure the ...
Often starting life as a tadpole eating algae, before morphing into a carnivorous adult, frogs carry energy from aquatic ecosystems onto land — where it can be transferred throughout the food web.
It's important to know which tadpole becomes which frog, he explained. "It helps us detect the presence of a species, especially as adult frogs can be seasonally active and difficult to find ...
DESCRIPTION: The relict leopard frog is a small, spotted frog with an adult body length of 1.75 to 3.5 inches. The dorsal color is brown, gray, or greenish with greenish-brown spots. A glandular dorso ...
Still, the population is teetering on the brink of extinction. Frogs have subsequently disappeared from two of the rediscovered localities and only about 500 to 1,100 adult frogs remain, half at a ...