ORLANDO, Fla. – Ever notice frogs make a lot of noise before it starts to rain? Some Native American groups believed frogs “singing” brought the rain. Is this true? Are frogs nature’s meteorologists?

A number of hearing aids are now able to amplify one person's voice while filtering out distracting background voices. Well, it turns out that female tree frogs are able to perform a similar task, in ...

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A greenish frog slightly larger than a quarter and donning a black Zorro mask recently started begging female frogs to have sex. Which means, ribbit season is about to erupt across the Inland ...

For us humans, having a conversation in a crowded room is challenging – it’s often called the cocktail party problem. The mix of sounds arriving at our eardrums needs to be analyzed to pick out the ...

In one of nature’s crueler fatal-attraction scenarios, a male túngara frog’s mating call also attracts frog-eating bats. Any hopes a frog has of disguising his call against background noise will be ...

Known for its distinctive "ribbit" call, the noisy Pacific chorus frog is a potent carrier of a deadly amphibian disease, according to new research published today in the journal PLoS ONE. Just how ...

Frogs are slimy, noisy and often colorful. But what about freakishly strong, helicopter parents? New research shows that Goliath frogs -- the world's largest frog species, found in Cameroon and ...