Yes, you read the title correctly — I grew up with an African dwarf frog as a pet. Not a dog, cat, hamster or bunny … but a small, 3-inch-long, brownish-green aquatic African dwarf frog. It was winter ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Ryp Walters with Froggy’s Lair says these ...

A good question! Frogs are amphibians. This means they can’t regulate their own body temperatures and start life as water-dwelling creatures. As they mature, they grow legs and lungs to live on land.

Frogs have long held a bad rap (at least among some people) for being slimy, even scary, critters, but that's not very fair to these amazing amphibians. There are currently around 7,600 known species ...

Even within a single species, animals don't all respond in the same way to environmental changes. A new study of reed frogs in East Africa reveals that understanding these differences could be key to ...

Local animal activists have joined a national campaign blasting gadgets store Brookstone, Inc., which has five Orange County locations, for selling a most unusual gift: the “Frog-O-Sphere Ecosystem” ...

I am writing this in response to the letter to the editor from Brenda F. DeLuca, VMD (“A froggy problem indeed,” July 5 LNP). I can speak personally about these frogs because, when we first carried ...

Water frogs – African dwarf frogs to be exact – are thought to be responsible, once again, for an outbreak of Salmonella that this time has sickened at least 217 people in 41 states, the Centers for ...

At least 217 people, mostly young children, have been sickened by salmonella spread by pet African dwarf water frogs, government health officials said. A single California breeder of the frogs has ...