This thumbnail-sized frog is the “spring peeper,” and hearing it fills me with joy. Every ditch and pool comes alive with peeper calls in February, as long as the weather is warm enough.

It's a newer celebration dubbed "Half-O-Ween," though those who observe the halfway-to-Halloween holiday would surely and rightly claim that they've enjoyed the eerie occasion's spring-meets-autumn ...

These frogs are the wood frog, pictured above; the spring peeper; the gray tree frog; and the similar Copes gray tree frog.

Before the frogs and toads come out, there will be virtual and in-person training to become familiar with the research project and with the calls to recognize.

State Rep. Laurie Osher of Orono presented a bill to name the spring peeper as Maine’s official amphibian. Someone told her they had been scouring other states’ lists of official things ...

spring peeper and wood turtle our official state dog, amphibian and reptile, respectively. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Before we go adding multiple cold-blooded creatures to our increasingly chaotic catalog ...

MEDINA, Ohio – The Medina County Park District can help cure those end-of-winter blues in March, with a variety of programs for all ages. The first half of March includes these programs.

On Monday, the Maine Audubon Society spoke in favor of two bills to make the spring peeper as the official state amphibian and the wood turtle as the official state reptile. Maine Audubon says ...

What happens when the biodiversity witnessed by one generation fades into memory the next? These questions are crossroads at ...

It’s hard to recall now, but produced, commercially successful, popular sapphic love songs simply didn’t exist in the 2010s.

Spring is on the way. We can see and hear it coming now even though we’re in mid-February — more than a month before the arrival of the vernal equinox.

Declines in frogs affect more than just our ears. Most critically, frogs are an integral part of local food webs.