NEW ORLEANS — The snoring noise near a shallow pond in a Mississippi national forest was meant to make female frogs sit up and take notice, but it got biologists even more excited. The noise indicated ...

BERKELEY COUNTY — Beyond a locked gate and an old logging road lies Sunset Pond — an ephemeral oasis known to South Carolina scientists as the last stronghold of the Carolina gopher frog. The name ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (August 30, 2021) — The S.C. Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) and Riverbanks Zoo are collaborating on a “Head Start” program to raise and release the state-endangered gopher frog ...

ALBANY – Chehaw Park & Zoo has received $5,000 from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to help develop public viewing aspects for a new “head start” education program focused on rare gopher ...

Pick up a Mississippi gopher frog and it covers its eyes with its forefeet, like someone afraid to see what's coming next. And for at least 10 years, it's had a good reason not to look. This year, for ...

This year, for a change, nature gave a bit of a break to one of the nation's most endangered species. The frogs breed only in ponds so shallow they dry up in summer. Hot, dry springs have stranded ...

Dusky gopher frogs are adorably winsome with big eyes, round stomachs and a call that sounds like a post-dinner snore—and they’re one of the rarest amphibians in the United States. Habitat loss, ...

What looks like a regular wooded area off Highway 67 is actually a pond, and the only Mississippi breeding ground of the rare gopher frog. "It dries up during part of the year and this is part of the ...

A North Carolina aquarium is releasing hundreds of frogs back into the wild after raising them up from tiny eggs. In a successful animal release, the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher announced ...

July is a month of early harvest in the garden. Much of the produce; especially the greens, that have been growing through the long days of June can now be gathered. This is also seen with the berries ...

The Supreme Court dealt a setback to the endangered dusky gopher frog on Tuesday, wiping away a lower court opinion that favored protections for the three-inch amphibian and directing the lower courts ...