Anne Fadiman's "Frog and Other Essays" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is a modest book -- 192 pages, seven essays, a slim spine you could lose between the couch cushions -- that retains confidence and ...

One frog was foolish enough to hop under the enclosure and was immediately set upon by Rosie, one of my golden comets that ...

As winter fades and spring arrives, Connecticut’s wetlands, ponds, and forests come alive with the calls of frogs and toads. These amphibians are an important and often overlooked part of the state’s ...

It’s a good reminder that Willimantic sits in a genuinely beautiful part of Connecticut, even if the town itself prioritizes interesting over conventionally pretty. The town’s ethnic diversity is ...

Porpoises are entirely dependent on their hearing for survival. They navigate, hunt, and communicate by emitting rapid click ...

In Madagascar, frogs are not background noise. They are a measure of how much forest still functions. The island holds an ...

These tiny frogs have an enormous voice for their size, and the recent warm evenings have been filled with their lovely chorus.

Biologists attached tiny recording devices that looked like mini backpacks to bats. What they found revealed a surprising ...

Springtime in the Bay Area brings with it lush green landscapes, vibrant wildflowers and buds breaking open on trees. And in some places, the soundtrack to all that visual beauty is the chorusing of ...

At a park near Canberra, Australia, a series of small white pyramid-shaped boxes are part of a new experiment: Can “frog ...

Friends of the Rouge want to recruit volunteers to ID the sounds of eight frog and toad species to monitor the health of the ...