by Susan | Oct 9, 2012 | Children and Nature, Climate change and frogs, Climate change and the Environment, Contests, Frog Conservation, Frog fun, Frogs Are Green contests, Frogs Are Green kids' art contest, Kids Art Contest, Learn about Frogs, Teaching Kids about Frogs, Uncategorized
Now that school is underway and the weather is getting colder (at least in this part of the world), it’s the perfect time to create some frog art. We hope you will consider submitting your frog art masterpieces to Frogs Are Green for our 2012 Kids’ Art...
by Susan | Aug 25, 2012 | Frogs and the Rainforest, Learn about Frogs, Rainforest Frogs, Read about Frogs
Most people think frogs are green, right? And it’s true, most frogs are a greenish, brownish, yellowish color, the better to hide from predators among grass and other vegetation. But frogs can be many different colors, even bright crayon colors like sky blue. Why...
by Susan | Aug 7, 2012 | Creating a Wildlife Friendly Backyard, frog calls, Learn about Frogs, Living a Frog-Friendly Life, Meet the Frogs, People Helping Frogs and Toads, Uncategorized
At Frogs Are Green, we’ve posted about tomato red frogs, blue frogs, and yellow-and-black spotted frogs, but I don’t think we’ve ever written about the Green Frog (Rana clamitans). Recently I visited my sister, who lives in the woods in Connecticut. On our first...
by Susan | Jul 25, 2012 | Amphbian research, Frog Conservation, Frog People, Learn about Frogs, Life Cycle of Frogs, Meet the Frogs, Uncategorized
We were so pleased to receive a guest post from Sara E. Viernum, a herpetologist with over 10 years of experience chasing snakes and salamanders around the U.S. When she’s not chasing reptiles and amphibians in the field, Sara is blogging about them on her...
by Susan | Jun 11, 2012 | Frogs and the Rainforest, Learn about Frogs, Life Cycle of Frogs, Meet the Frogs, Rainforest Frogs, Uncategorized
This is an updated repost of a Father’s Day post from 2009. Most animal dads aren’t too involved with their offspring (human dads, excepted of course). But two species of frogs, Liophryne schlaginhaufeni and Sphenophryne cornuta, in the microhylid frog...
by Susan | May 21, 2012 | Amphbian research, biodiversity, Learn about Frogs, Uncategorized
A research team involving Yale University and the University of Colorado Boulder has developed a first public demonstration version of its “Map of Life,” an ambitious Web-based project designed to show the distribution of all living plants and animals on the planet....
