When rain falls and water is plentiful, the sex lives of plains spadefoot toads are pretty, well, plain. Females prowl ponds for the suitor with the most winsome call; they pair off to couple, ...

Many animals have curious adaptations that give them an advantage in surviving the natural world in which they inhabit. One such amphibian that exhibits this type of adaptation is common right here in ...

Time for more spadefoot toads (that is, members of the anuran clade Pelobatoidea or Anomocoela). This time, we're going to look at the two North American spadefoot toad genera (Spea and Scaphiopus).

Meet the desert spadefoot— a round, small amphibian that always looks just a little bit sad. WITH TEMPERATURES that hit 50°C in summer and 0°C in winter, and cycles of severe drought followed by ...

A small frog with a big voice is starting to make a comeback in Massachusetts, thanks to some help from state scientists and student volunteers. The eastern spadefoot is about 2 inches long, with a ...

The rarest frog in Rhode Island may not be as rare as scientists once thought after a study by University of Rhode Island researchers using a seldom-used methodology turned up many more of the ...

Southern Georgia has a rich frog fauna (about 25 species) and the breeding calls of these amphibians resound through the night during wet weather. This year I have received numerous reports from ...

Outback rain has enticed elusive burrowing frogs to the surface The frogs can spend months or years underground, waiting for the perfect conditions You would look grumpy too if you were a frog in the ...

Preface -- General account -- Common names -- Present classifications -- Scientific name -- Specific evaluation of our North American forms -- Range -- Habitat ...

Western spadefoot, also known as spea hammondii. (James Bettaso, with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, via Courthouse News) SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — A conservation group on Wednesday formally ...

A small frog with a big voice is starting to make a comeback in Massachusetts, thanks to some help from state scientists and student volunteers. The eastern spadefoot is about 2 inches long, with a ...