Researchers from the US studied the plasticity in growth and development of wood frog larvae in response to the emerging disease ranavirus, which can kill off the entire population of ponds. They ...

Due to amphibians’ sensitivity to habitat loss, climate change, and pollution, they are dying in large numbers. Since the ...

The three-spined stickleback is a small fish found in ponds, lakes, ditches and rivers. It is a carnivore and eats other small animals, including tadpoles and fish. Each year females lay their ...

“These guys are hatchable,” she says. Red-eyed tree frogs, Agalychnis callidryas, lay their eggs on foliage at the edge of ponds; when the tadpoles hatch, they fall into the water ...

While studying the conservation of endangered amphibians during his PhD at the University of Newcastle in Australia, Jose Valdez spent a lot of time peering into ponds looking for tadpoles. One night ...

DÚLRA’S garden pond is alive once more – thanks to tadpoles supplied by a VIP donor.Having read last week’s tale of woe of ...

Small ponds will soon become the home for hundreds of newly hatched wood frog tadpoles. They may share this pond with a myriad of aquatic invertebrates. Many of those invertebrates will chow down on ...

They compared three pond types: 35 which remained free from ranavirus over an entire season; seven which contained some infected tadpoles but saw little or no mortality; and five with an outbreak ...