Many scientists believe the red-eyed tree frog developed its vivid scarlet peepers to shock predators into at least briefly questioning their meal choice. These iconic rain-forest amphibians sleep ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. These frogs put the “group” in “group sex”—and that helps them thrive. Of all vertebrates, gray foam-nest tree ...

A juvenile American tree frog (Hyla cinerea) of unknown age was presented to the Exotic Service at the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine for an acute onset of swelling of the left ...

Science taught me something today. Tree frogs might be the best athletes on the planet, pound for pound. Look. I know that sounds stupid. They can't windmill a basketball at 40 years old like ...

Simon Curtis, a 35-year-old singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, found the tree frog inside a package of lettuce he bought at the grocery store A Los Angeles resident, who found a living tree frog ...

Figure 3: The same juvenile American tree frog as in Figs. 1 and 2, showing a swollen, ecchymotic left front leg that extends from its scapular to toes. We decided to treat this frog with topical ...