Playing dead isn't the ultimate ghosting technique. Frogs use "tonic immobility" as a strategy to stay alive during mating ...

Humans aren’t the only beings that “ghost” in relationships. When invertebrates and vertebrates fake their own deaths, it's usually been observed as a tactic to avoid predators. Female frogs, however, ...

Most female frogs don’t call; most lack or have only rudimentary vocal cords. A typical female selects a mate from a chorus of males and then –silently – signals her beau. But the female concave-eared ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X East Rock seventh grader Jeryl searches for frog’s large intestines… Credit: Maya McFadden Photos ...

The frogs are made using synthetic tissue and mimic properties of a live frog. The smell of formaldehyde in classrooms may soon be a thing of the past as high schools begin to introduce synthetic ...

Drawing parallels with other species, not naming names, the voices of female frogs are being drowned out by their much louder male counterparts – so much so we only know how 1.4% of the ladies ...

Grab fast and hang on for hours. A fierce grip is all the courtship finesse a male frog needs in species that reproduce in frenzied mobs. Female European common frogs, however, have at least three ...

Frogs and toads are often talked about as if they’re identical, but once you look closely, you’ll notice they’re quite different. Although they belong to the same biological order, their appearance, ...