Two years ago, Juan Díaz Ricaurte was hiking through the mountains of Brazil when a male yellow cururu toad affixed itself to his boot. Díaz Ricaurte gently detached the frog and set it back on the ...

Six mating positions (amplexus modes) are known among the almost 7,000 species of frogs and toads found worldwide. However, the Bombay night frog (Nyctibatrachus humayuni), which is endemic to the ...

Male frogs often mistake other species, objects, and even lifeless frogs for mates, a mix-up known as misdirected amplexus. Learn why this mating mistake could be millions of years old. A shoe, a ...

I'm no biologist, but I doubt those frogs are actually getting it on. Frog mating doesn't involve penetration and takes place in bodies of water - "froggy style" - rather than face to face. This photo ...

While mating, most male frogs mount and hug their female partners in one of six known forms of embrace called amplexus. But the secretive Bombay night frog, found only in the Western Ghats, has ...

Mumbai: There are around 7,000 species of frogs throughout the world, who mate in one of the six different positions known. Most of these positions involve the male grabbing the female around the ...