The animal kingdom is full of fascinating tricks for enduring sub-freezing temperatures. Birds, for example, often just take ...

Sometimes I see a a dog with a super-shiny coat or a glistening, oily breadstick and wonder, "What highlighter she use?" For real: I can find beauty inspiration in many, many things. So this winter, I ...

When the cold weather comes, I bundle up in a sweater and explore the snow. But my frog friends are never around then. In fact, I’ve never seen a frog in a sweater. I asked my friend Erica Crespi why ...

The next time you declare that you are “freezing to death,” spare a thought for the wood frog who gets so cold in winter that its heart stops beating – but it does not die. Once the spring thaw ...

Ever notice during the winter the lack of bugs, spiders and even amphibians? Where do they all go? The answer might surprise you. A variety of frogs live in the central and eastern U.S., including the ...

Long before winter seals the forest under ice, certain frogs begin preparing for a transformation that defies basic biology.

As colder weather sets in, the frogs then distribute extreme levels of glucose through their bodies, with it concentrating in the heart, liver, skeletal muscles and blood. Minnesota has four types of ...

One of Australia’s most endangered amphibians can fight off a deadly fungal infection with the help of a naturally heated shelter, which researchers are calling a “frog sauna”. The disease, ...