SYDNEY (Reuters) - 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 ...

Australia is home to extraordinary reptiles and frogs, from giant lace monitors to tiny alpine froglets. Over 1,100 reptiles and 250 frog species are found across the Australian continent and islands.

Almost two-thirds of Australia is privately owned. But most of our scientific understanding of how threatened species are ...

A deadly fungus has already wiped out 90 species and threatens 500 more but Anthony Waddle is hoping gene replacement could be their salvation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frogs across Australia are dropping dead in large numbers due to reasons yet unidentified for the second consecutive winter, ...

Ever flushed a toilet in the Australian outback and seen a frog staring back at you? These so-called “dunny frogs”—famous for ...

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 ...

A fungal infection some scientists consider one of the worst wildlife diseases of all time is wreaking havoc on the global frog population. Now, scientists say they’ve discovered a way to help frogs ...

Spotted tree frogs are critically endangered in New South Wales. Jason Edwards via Getty Images Officials have released eighty critically endangered spotted tree frogs into Kosciuszko National Park in ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...