As you may have concluded from that nightly ribbetting sound echoing from ponds, marshes and the damp spots in your yard: The frogs are back. And that's a good thing. Volunteers with Metro's amphibian ...

Ahhhh Spring! The thought of spring conjures up many sights, smells and sounds. After a long, hard winter, that red, red robin is a sight for frozen eyes to many and a sign of things to come for all.

A good love song tells female frogs when the time is right for mating, finds a UC Davis study showing male frogs change their ...

Yesterday (3/4 – Monday) was the first day I heard the “spring peepers” or chorus frogs. They are among the first sounds of spring. In the evening…I sometimes walk out to the end of the driveway to ...

Many of us think of the first signs of spring as being visual the first bird of spring or the first wildflower of spring. While there is plenty of debate on what species of bird constitutes the first, ...

For some people, spring begins with the sound of birds. For me, it’s frogs. All winter, in places that have real winters, frogs crouch hidden in the leaves, their outsides frozen so hard they’d make a ...

The sound of someone running a thumb down the teeth of a comb is as much a part of spring in St. Clair County as the robin's "cheerily, cheer up, cheer up, cheerily, cheer up." The western chorus ...

April is such an amazing month of change and we have seen it again this year. Early, we had temperatures of less than 10 degrees and a week later, we climbed to 70 degrees. In this warmth, melting of ...

During a recent lecture on evolution, I had to explain the differences between three different processes known as geographic, temporal and behavioral isolation. Geographic isolation is the easiest of ...

A study from the University of California, Davis, found that temperature affects the sound and quality of male frogs' mating calls. In the colder, early weeks of spring, their songs start off ...

LANSING, MICH. -- If the sound of frogs singing their hearts out is one of your favorite signs of spring, you might be exactly who the Michigan DNR is seeking to help with its annual frog and toad ...