Developers face costs for saving frog in Calif.

Federal wildlife officials estimate that measures needed to protect the California red-legged frog will cost developers up to $507 million over the next two decades.

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Traffic noise could be ruining sex lives of frogs

Traffic noise could be ruining the sex lives of urban frogs by drowning out the seductive croaks of amorous males, an Australian researcher said Friday.

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Endangered Miss. frogs get a break in the weather

Pick up a Mississippi gopher frog and it covers its eyes with its forefeet, like someone afraid to see what's coming next. And for at least a decade, it's had a good reason not to look.

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Agency wants to boost Calif. frog's protected land

Federal wildlife officials on Tuesday proposed more protection for the threatened California red-legged frog, providing up to four times as much habitat than was set aside two years ago.

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Australian researchers discover elusive frog

A tiny frog species thought by many experts to be extinct has been rediscovered alive and well in a remote area of Australia's tropical north, researchers said Thursday.

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Italy museum defies pope anger over crucified frog

An art museum in northern Italy said Thursday it will continue displaying a sculpture portraying a green frog nailed to a cross that has angered Pope Benedict XVI and local officials.

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Frog Without Lungs Found in Indonesia

A frog has been found in a remote part of Indonesia that has no lungs and breathes through its skin, a discovery that researchers said Thursday could provide insight into what drives evolution in certain species.

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Tenn. Zoo Breeds Endangered Frogs

A new breeding program at the Memphis Zoo could nearly double the known population of an endangered frog species. Biologists estimate there are only about 100 adult Mississippi gopher frogs left in the wild, but zoo officials say they've successfully produced 94 tadpoles through in-vitro fertilization.

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Scientists Find 'Devil Toad' Fossil

A frog the size of a bowling ball, with heavy armor and teeth, lived among dinosaurs millions of years ago — intimidating enough that scientists who unearthed its fossils dubbed the beast Beelzebufo, or Devil Toad.

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Land in Puerto Rico Set Aside for Frog

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday designated rocky stream banks and privately owned land in southeastern Puerto Rico as critical habitat for a threatened species of the coqui frog, a national symbol of the Caribbean island.

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Thousands Flock to Frog-Jumping Contest

A rift between organizers of Calaveras County's famous frog jumping contest did not keep away thousands of frog wranglers Sunday inspired by Mark Twain's tall tale.

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Tiny Frog in Amber May Be 25M Years Old

A miner in the state of Chiapas found a tiny tree frog that has been preserved in amber for 25 million years, a researcher said. If authenticated, the preserved frog would be the first of its kind found in Mexico, according to David Grimaldi, a biologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History, who was not involved in the find.

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Amphibians – the comeback kings of evolution

Amphibians bounced back spectacularly from a series of mass extinctions during their evolution, according to a new genetic analysis.

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An East Texas woman says she made a gruesome find in her bag of greens she bought at Wal-Mart. The woman says she found a dead frog that literally made her sick to her stomach.

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In an ultimate case of crossed wires, a tiny tree frog's bug-catching antics left it with a bellyful of bulb. The Cuban tree frog took on an unnatural glow when it swallowed an entire fairy light in a botched bid to catch an insect.

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Submitted by James Snyder who wrote: This is a Cuban tree frog on a tree in my backyard in southern Florida. How and why he ate this light is a mystery.

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Rated G Shower Story

There is a music festival I used to attend in Willmar, Minnesota several years ago that hosts about 20,000 teenagers. The first time I went, I heard that it gets a little crazy on site, so I booked a campsite a few miles from the civic center.

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A frog that constantly changes colour is being worshipped as a god in India.

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A tree frog ripped apart by a lawnmover has been stitched back together after undergoing life-saving surgery in Australia. The unfortunate amphibian was given emergency anaesthetic and operated on by doctors in the Northern Territory.

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Scientists need your help in order to track populations of frogs and fireflies around the country and figure out why these populations are declining.

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Millions of frogs are shifted around the world each year for sale as pets and food. Now research shows, for the first time, that this global trade is spreading two severe diseases – one of which is blamed for driving amphibians towards extinction.

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Excerpt: Giant bullfrog Brullie has hopped into history as the first of his kind to be fitted with a steel pin to repair a broken leg.

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Silent and secretive creatures, salamanders are just as quietly falling off the map in tropical forests throughout Central America, a new study says.

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Gray tree frog and leopard frog tadpoles were exposed to small amounts of the 10 pesticides that are widely used throughout the world.

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The Frog And The Wall: A modern day tale of Democrats and Republicans in the 2008 elections

There was once a very timid frog who lacked confidence and was very fearful of any challenges. However, there was a race to climb a wall and he desperately wanted to be part of it.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least 11 species of African frogs carry a built-in concealed weapon -- they can sprout claws on demand to fight off attackers, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

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I purchased Yoga about three years ago from a little local pet shop. He was about the size of a nickle back then, now he's a little over six inches - that's a quarter next to him in the photo, so you can see just how big he has gotten.

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"Amphibian horror" isn't a movie genre, but on this evidence perhaps it should be. Harvard biologists have described a bizarre, hairy frog with cat-like extendable claws.

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"Amphibian horror" isn't a movie genre, but on this evidence perhaps it should be. Harvard biologists have described a bizarre, hairy frog with cat-like extendable claws.

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A sculpture of a crucified frog at a modern art museum in Italy has stirred controversy in the staunchly Roman Catholic country, an official said Monday.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A rare and primitive frog living in a remote Borneo stream has no lungs and apparently absorbs oxygen through its skin, researchers reported on Wednesday.

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The treatment of diabetes could be about to take a leap forward with the help of a South American frog. A compound found on the skin of the paradoxical frog - so called because the tadpole is much larger than the adult - boosts the production of insulin.

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Frogwatch USA is a frog and toad monitoring program that gives YOU the opportunity to help scientists conserve amphibians! With as little as 20 minutes a week you can collect essential information to protect frogs and toads.

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Devil frogs, now in a swamp near you! No, they've actually been dead for a number of years now, but still. Its huge!

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Toads use their eyeballs to help swallow their prey, aborigines in the desert drink frog "pee", deadly poisons, and more...

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Paleontologist David Krause of Stony Brook University in New York and his colleagues began unearthing the specimen in bits and pieces more than a decade ago. ...

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WASHINGTON — A frog the size of a bowling ball, with heavy armor and teeth, lived among dinosaurs millions of years ago — intimidating enough that scientists who unearthed its fossils dubbed the beast Beelzebufo, or Devil Toad.

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