Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species of tree frog challenges what we know about when Australian and ...

When Australia’s national threatened species list was updated in March, almost a third of the newly listed animals were frogs. With the additions of the Mount Ballow mountain frog (Philoria knowlesi), ...

Fossil discovery pushes the history of Australian tree frogs back 55 million years, reshaping our understanding of their ...

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America.

Zoos Victoria's amphibian specialists have successfully bred two critically endangered Victorian frog species ... and the southern giant burrowing frog. Both frogs are native to the Gippsland ...

Fossorial frogs aren’t rare. In fact, there are at least a dozen named species found around the world, including the giant burrowing frog in Australia and multiple shovelnose frogs located in ...

But researchers at the University of Sydney noticed that as tadpoles, cane toads are less robust than young native frogs. Previous work in the lab showed that the presence of frog tadpoles negatively ...