The science and technology publication American Scientist wrote about the "record-breaking, 10-inch-long whopper of a ...

Intrigued, they took a closer look at the animals and soon realized it was a new species: Phrynoderma konkani, or the Konkan pond frog. Konkan pond frogs are considered “small sized,” reaching ...

pond skaters, whirligig beetles and great diving beetles. Other creatures might then arrive, such as leeches, frogs, dragonflies and ducks. For some of this pond life, a temporary home suits their ...

A COMMUNITY group has issued a warning after reports of people dumping frogs and frogspawn into a public pond.

Frogs are a gardener’s friend. They act like natural pest control eating slugs, snails and other pests. If you have a pond already, you might soon see frog spawn, as this is the time of year ...

The team placed a Japanese striped snake and a black-spotted pond frog together to study how the snake assaults its prey with its fangs and how the frog tries to flee by jumping. Videos of the ...

Pool frogs (Pelophylax lessonae) are limited to even fewer sites. Presumed extinct in the UK in 1995, they have since been reintroduced at two sites in Norfolk. They prefer damp, densely vegetated ...

Frogs, lacking teeth, are known to swallow their prey whole. In an experiment, Sugiura fed a black-spotted pond frog with 15 aquatic beetles. Fourteen of them emerged from the predator’s behind ...