Whether an animal is poisonous or venomous is often a confusing question, and that's especially true with these two frogs, ...

According to www.livescience.com, an experiment conducted at Missouri State University determined that wood-frogs can recognize predators before they’ve even hatched. Since many amphibians associate ...

When pressure is applied, the spines pierce their skin. The frogs are considered venomous as the toxic skin secretions that coat these spines can inject venom via a wound in the skin of would-be ...

They are important predators of many insects, including those insects that live around freshwater like mosquitoes. But frogs are also food for bigger animals. In the rainforests that includes ...

While the bright coloration of this red-eyed tree frog doesn’t make the amphibious creature see red, it does provide an eye-catching display for humans who glimpse it in its rainforest habitat. In ...

Many scientists believe the red-eyed tree frog developed its vivid scarlet peepers to shock predators into at least briefly questioning their meal choice. These iconic rain-forest amphibians sleep ...

From bloodsucking fly mites to fish being swallowed whole, photographers get up close and personal with an array of animals ...

“The saying represents the state where someone is rooted to the spot out of fear, but it may be more apt to say frogs dare to stop moving before predators in an attempt to survive,” said ...

Surinam horned frogs achieve their enormous girth by being generally indiscriminate about what they eat. Typical ambush predators, they squeeze their bodies into the forest substrate or leaf ...

Carole Lindstrom took this photo of a Pacific Chorus Frog (Pseudocris regilla) as it paused while climbing a window.