To find her mate amidst a cacophony of frog croaks, groans, squeaks and trills, a female green tree frog just needs to take a deep breath. “We think the lungs are working a bit like some ...

For frogs, love is noisy. Each spring, swamps, marshes and ponds across the United States become the amphibian equivalent of raucous singles bars as a host of damp-skinned hopefuls from many species ...

For us humans, having a conversation in a crowded room is challenging – it’s often called the cocktail party problem. The mix of sounds arriving at our eardrums needs to be analyzed to pick out the ...

March 4 (UPI) --Frog lungs work kind of like noise cancelling headphones, according to a new study, helping females drown out the overwhelming cacophony of competing mating calls. The new findings, ...

I saw the beautiful frog and muttered to myself "safe in the arms of mother duck." I then chuckled, thinking how that might sound, as ducks are known to eat frogs. In this case, however, all was well ...

Female American green tree frogs use their inflated lungs to dampen the mating calls of other species so they can pick out the ones from males they may mate with. Male frogs use mating calls, ranging ...

I saw the beautiful frog and muttered to myself, "Safe in the arms of mother duck." I then chuckled thinking how that might sound, as ducks are known to eat frogs. In this case however, all was well ...

A number of hearing aids are now able to amplify one person's voice while filtering out distracting background voices. Well, it turns out that female tree frogs are able to perform a similar task, in ...

Molly Albecker conducted a tree frog survey in the salty marshes near Bodie Island Lighthouse, but she didn’t think she’d find any frogs. The doctoral candidate and her East Carolina University ...

This week I’m writing about things that go peep, croak and brr-wum in the night. If you’ve ever been near water at dusk or at night, you know what I’m talking about. We’re talking about frogs.

Many outdoor enthusiasts in the southern United States (or a visitor to a zoo or a nature center for us West-Texans) have seen at least one species of tree frog that lives primarily in, you guessed it ...

For us humans, having a conversation in a crowded room is challenging – it’s often called the cocktail party problem. The mix of sounds arriving at our eardrums needs to be analysed to pick out the ...