'Amphibian Ark' Could Save Frogs
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As pollution and a killer fungus decimate frog populations around the world, scientists work to quarantine a stock of healthy croakers. By the Associated Press.
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Ponds and swamps are becoming eerily silent. The familiar melody of ribbits, croaks and chirps is disappearing as a mysterious killer fungus wipes out frog populations around the globe, a phenomenon likened to the extinction of dinosaurs.
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For the first time in three decades,  critics of the Endangered Species Act are building momentum to  rewrite the law implemented to save America's threatened flora  and fauna, from the star cactus to the grizzly bear.
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A third of the world&#39;s amphibian species are in danger of extinction, according to the first-ever global survey of the animals.
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This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Chris Austin&rsquo;s fieldwork takes him to some of the most inaccessible places on Earth in the pursuit of knowledge about the diversity of the world&rsquo;s amphibians and reptiles. He serves as assistant curator of Herpetology and assistant professor of Biological Science at the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Science. This story relates some of the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of field work in remote New Guinea.
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Utah wildlife officials are alarmed over the presence of American bullfrogs. Acting on a tip from a golfer, biologists confirmed the frogs were in a pond at Roosevelt Golf Course. They have moved elsewhere in the Uinta Basin in eastern Utah, 150 miles east of Salt Lake City.
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Eye of newt and toe of frog may one day be gone from witches grog. Indeed, not just frogs and newts but amphibians in general are rapidly becoming threatened worldwide, a new study shows.
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More than a hundred species of tiny land-breeding frogs in the Caribbean evolved from a single South American species that probably hitched a ride on a raft of vegetation and washed up on an island beach, according to scientists who spent decades collecting tissues from the colorful hoppers.
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Australian scientists once marveled at an unusual frog that could turn off its gastric juices and brood its young in its stomach. But by 1981, the southern gastric-brooding frog had completely disappeared.
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CONSERVATIONISTS at Warwickshire Wildlife Trust are asking people to join their adopt-a-species scheme for wildlife under threat.  The vulnerable species available for adoption are great crested newt, dormouse, water vole, snipe, otter and barn owl.
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The newest addition to the Tennessee Aquarium is a recently hatched rare turtle of an endangered species displayed in only a few places in North America.
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They say as many as 122 species may have become extinct since 1980 and a third of known amphibians face oblivion. Naturalists describe the creatures as sensitive indicators of the health of the wider environment.
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There are many ways to try to save endangered species, including freezing sperm and eggs for breeding programs. With fish, though, that approach is limited.
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MEXICO CITY - A miner in the state of Chiapas found a tiny tree frog that has been preserved in amber for 25 million years, a researcher said.
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A U.N. meeting on endangered species could help secure the survival one of humanity's closest living relatives, the orangutan, by saving its forest home from loggers, a leading expert said on Tuesday.
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Ribbit's new Amphibian service makes phone-like voice features accessible via PC or online.
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Almost a third of the world&#39;s frogs, toads, salamanders and other amphibians are threatened with extinction within 100 years, according to a study.