Someone in northwestern Australia heard a “laughing” sound coming from the backyard. They recorded the sound and submitted it to a citizen science database. Scientists listened to this laugh-like ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Australia has about 240 frog species, but around 30% of them are threatened by climate change, water pollution, habitat loss, the chytrid fungus, and in a variety of other ways SYDNEY, June 24 ...

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

An Australian man opted for a "swim in the creek" instead of his backyard after he awoke to find his pool filled with frogs. Roy Hamilton of New South Wales told Storyful that excessive rains this ...

Tell us you live in Australia without telling us you live in Australia... A frog, two mice and a beetle were seen sheltering aboard a snake inside a rainwater tank in viral videos shared on TikTok ...

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 ...