Female frogs aren't hopping to mate with every interested male frog, scientists have found. Instead, they are faking their deaths to escape unwanted attention. Female European common frogs were ...

Scientists have discovered a weird and wacky quirk regarding how poison frogs have sex. Several species of male poison frogs use a "swollen fingertip" to pass pheromones into the female during sex, ...

While “ghosting” is a popular method of ending a relationship with a potential suitor for humans, female frogs take that concept to the next level. In a phenomenon dubbed “tonic immobility,” a recent ...

Some frog and toad species are explosive breeders. This means they have short reproductive periods, requiring them to gather in large numbers to mate. Hundreds, possibly even thousands, of animals ...

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Every other Friday, the Outside/In team here at NHPR answers listener questions about the natural world. Today's question comes from Andy, calling from Dover, New Hampshire. Alejandro Vélez: That is a ...