The persistence of two colors everywhere suggests a balance of evolutionary forces and raises the question: Does it make any difference whether a leopard frog is brown or green? Phrased another way, ...

Cummings and a colleague confirmed this theory by collecting poison dart frogs with ten different color schemes. Next the scientists extracted toxins from each frog’s skin, diluted them and ...

Could color changes be meant to help males stand out in the writhing crowd? In 2012, Bell started researching how the genetics of African reed frogs varied across different areas. She wasn’t ...

The area is frequented often, he said, which made them both "quite surprised and kind of speechless" when they came across a new frog species, which he said in a blog post is "clearly different ...

And the team will consider other lifestyle factors, including how high frogs climb or whether they lay eggs in water, as well as other eye characteristics, such as iris color, to see if those ...