When threatened, hairy frogs break toe bones to form sharp, temporary claws that pierce through their skin for defense. Males sprout blood-rich, hair-like filaments during mating season, boosting ...

Frogs are a critical part of the food web and keep ecosystems healthy. They're also some of nature's weirdest and most ...

Dan Wells, professor of biology and biochemistry at the University of Houston, and his team are rummaging the campus undergrowth this summer in search of the Rio Grande chirping frog. The tiny ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. There’s much more to frogs than hopping and ribbiting. Some frogs swallow their tadpoles and later cough ...

In honor of Leap Day 2012, we’re featuring some of the leapingest creatures in the Smithsonian Institution: frogs from the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project. The project is a ...

The golden poison frog of Colombia packs enough toxin in its skin to kill ten grown men, yet it produces none of that poison itself. Like other poison frogs, it harvests alkaloids from the ants and ...

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Frogs come in a huge variety of shapes, colors, sizes and personalities. Famed naturalist Sir David Attenborough met a multitude of these webbed wonders while filming the Nature episode Fabulous Frogs ...

Perhaps the most fascinating fact about the hairy frog is its formidable, hidden claws. Wolverine, a character in the Marvel movies, can extend sharp claws and then retract them. His claws pierce ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. There’s much more to frogs than hopping and ribbiting. Some frogs swallow their tadpoles and later cough ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hairy frog, Trichobatrachus robustus© reptiles4all/Shutterstock.com The post The Wolverine Frog ...