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Fewer than 100 dusky gopher frogs were known to remain. Thanks to some very dedicated humans, numbers are now on the rise.
American bullfrogs are gobbling up everything in sight, including some of the rarest species in the Western US.
A pond habitat is a watery world where lots of different plants and animals live. It's a special place where creatures like fish, frogs, dragonflies and water lilies make their homes.
AAron Capouellez wants people to know everything they can about how to create, maintain and foster nurturing habitats for Pennsylvania’s frogs and toads. But he doesn’t want them to know where ...
Frogs and newts find temporary ponds a welcome place to breed and thrive without their eggs being eaten by more established life, such as predatory fish. UK Biodiversity Training Manager at the Museum ...
Pond life: the animals that rely on this habitat Some creatures spend their whole lives submerged in a pond, such as freshwater hoglice that have gills to aid their aquatic lifestyle. But ponds are ...
When the agency first protected this species in 2001, the frogs were thought to live only at Glen's Pond, in Harrison County's DeSoto National Forest. Since then, study of the taxonomy of other gopher ...
Giant and incredibly voracious, the bullfrog stands as one of the most fearsome predators in the pond. With a massive mouth capable of swallowing creatures much larger than itself, this amphibian ...
Maple Gauthier, 8, of Cumberland transports a frog to the pond after discovering it in the woods on Sunday, April 14, 2019. Staff photo by Derek Davis ...
Tadpoles involved in predator-prey interactions were studied in tropical wet forest in Costa Rica under laboratory and field conditions. Larvae of the frog Leptodactylus pentadactylus and naiads of ...