SEATTLE — There aren't many college vice presidents who will take you hunting for frogs. But Peter Lortz, Vice President of North Seattle College, will. Because the Pacific Tree Frog is his ...

Fossil discovery pushes the history of Australian tree frogs back 55 million years, reshaping our understanding of their ...

In new research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, we identify Australia’s earliest known species of ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. These frogs put the “group” in “group sex”—and that helps them thrive. Of all vertebrates, gray foam-nest tree ...

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America.