The booming chorus of thousands of high-pitched “kreek-eecks” from a gathering of small but tenacious Pacific tree frogs has filled the night in many Central Coast locations with the recent warm rains ...

I was tossing, turning and swearing retribution but I was not sleeping. It was after midnight and I had someone to blame. More accurately, something to blame. The annoying sound carried across the ...

After having so much fun in last week’s column writing about robins, I thought, let’s explore tree frogs. Turns out there are a lot of interesting facts about these amphibians. This time of year, as ...

It's the next generation -- of tree frogs. A new species was discovered in Madagascar and named for having "Star Trek" like cadences. Paramount/courtesy Everett Collection Beam me up, froggy. Deep in ...

Pam Twitchell of Adair Village took this photo in June 2008 on her front porch. “My home is located across from a wetland and the little guys/gals find refuge in my flower pots. The flower ‘Prince’ is ...

THREE FORKS, Mont. — At the Ott-Kimm Conservatory in Three Forks, the senses of sight, sound and smell are magnified. It's a place where life forms come together in what some have called the Circle of ...

Urban wildlife sanctuaries, including an overgrown Capp Street backyard, are helping bring a tiny frog’s once-familiar bellow back to San Francisco. “At one time, the chorus frog was the sound of the ...

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