A remote island at the very northern tip of Australia has been revealed as a tropical refuge for three species new-to-science ...

Jodi Rowley is the Lead Scientist of the Australian Museum's citizen science project, FrogID. She has received funding from the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Perth Zoo, the ...

First published in Western Australian Naturalist, v. 4, no. 5, June 30, 1954, p. 114-124. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source ...

SYDNEY, June 24 – Wading through a moonlit pond on Australia’s east coast talking to frogs makes Michael Mahony feel like a kid again. The 70-year-old biology professor and conservationist at ...

Frogs in northern Australia have to find a way to survive months of cold, dry climate. Their solution? Hang around outside just long enough to trap condensation, which they use to hydrate themselves.

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America. Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species ...

An emergency team of biologists in Australia flew to Kosciuszko National Park in New South Wales to assess damage to special enclosures for southern corroboree frogs.The Taronga Conservation Society ...

Facing habitat loss, pollution, climate change, and the devastating chytrid fungus, there has been little positive news about amphibians recently. However, a story out of Australia brings a much ...

Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species of tree frog challenges what we know about when Australian and South American frogs parted ways on the evolutionary tree. Previously, ...

The results are out for Australia’s Bird of the Year, following a fierce battle between some of the nation’s most beloved and ...

Tracked by their calls at night, two species of narrow-mouthed frogs have been recorded as new in a research that took place in the Raja Ampat Islands, western New Guinea. During the examinations it ...