Every spring in Interior Alaska, a small amphibian does something that would kill virtually any other vertebrate: it thaws ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A brown wood frog sits among dried oak leaves and melting snow, its golden eyes reflecting the light.© A-Z Animals The post The ...

The wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus or Rana sylvatica) has a broad distribution over North America, extending from the Boreal forest of Canada and Alaska to the southern Appalachians. Portrait macro© ...

Long before winter seals the forest under ice, certain frogs begin preparing for a transformation that defies basic biology. The wood frog (Rana sylvatica), along with a few treefrog species like the ...

Because Anchorage experienced an unusually cold spring, the sounds of the frogs waking from their monthslong dormancy came a ...

With an eye patch like a bandit and bodies no bigger than 3 inches, wood frogs are among the fascinating critters that spend the winter sheltered in backyard and woodland leaf litter. If you find one ...

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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 ...

Wood frogs are highly dependent on environmental conditions to determine whether they are active. After fattening up during the summer, wood frogs enter brumation in the fall as temperatures cool.