Sometimes I see a a dog with a super-shiny coat or a glistening, oily breadstick and wonder, "What highlighter she use?" For real: I can find beauty inspiration in many, many things. So this winter, I ...

Ever notice during the winter the lack of bugs, spiders and even amphibians? Where do they all go? The answer might surprise you. A variety of frogs live in the central and eastern U.S., including the ...

When the cold weather comes, I bundle up in a sweater and explore the snow. But my frog friends are never around then. In fact, I’ve never seen a frog in a sweater. I asked my friend Erica Crespi why ...

Halloween is almost here! With that said, I have another scary tale to share. This time, about zombies! Picture this — it is mid-winter, the temperature is well below freezing, ponds have frozen over ...

Boulenger’s backpack frog uses one of the strangest reproductive strategies in the amphibian world. Females carry fertilized ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. It looks dead for months, its body packed with ice. But ...

As colder weather sets in, the frogs then distribute extreme levels of glucose through their bodies, with it concentrating in the heart, liver, skeletal muscles and blood. Minnesota has four types of ...

The next time you declare that you are “freezing to death,” spare a thought for the wood frog who gets so cold in winter that ...

In northeastern Bangladesh, the red narrow-mouthed frog (Microhyla rubra) is defying the monsoon, breeding in winter streams. It is a surprising twist that challenges assumptions about amphibian life ...

One of Australia’s most endangered amphibians can fight off a deadly fungal infection with the help of a naturally heated shelter, which researchers are calling a “frog sauna”. The disease, ...