Scientists suggest female frogs listen for changes in the male calls as a signal for when it's warm enough to mate.

“The sight of a mass of amorous frogs writhing around together in slippery foam is one that will stay with me for a while.” As temperatures rise, the foam nest begins to dry and forms a protective ...

Climate change could be remixing the beat at the pond. A new study from UC Davis researchers, who listened closely to a male frog’s mating call, found that warmer temperatures lead to a faster beat, ...

A study from the University of California, Davis, found that temperature affects the sound and quality of male frogs' mating calls. In the colder, early weeks of spring, their songs start off ...

It’s frog-eat-frog in the amphibian dating game. An ecologist has captured the moment a female green and golden bell frog attempted to eat a male suitor. Dr. John Gould, from the University of ...

When it comes to animals romancing in the wild, things get weird—really weird. Some animals offer bizarre gifts, some put on daring dances, and others? Well, let’s just say things get really messy.

During mating, some male poison frogs embrace their partner’s face in a love-potion-laced hug. The amorous amphibians may create pheromones in glands in their fingers, researchers report July 21 in ...

Andamanese Charles Darwin’s frogs breed like no other frog: clinging upside down to the side of partially flooded tree cavities. This inverted addition to the Kermit Sutra may be positioning the frogs ...