by Susan | Mar 3, 2011 | Earth Day, frog calls, Frog posters, Learn about Frogs, Life Cycle of Frogs, Read about Frogs, Uncategorized
Now that it’s March, it’s almost time for the peepers to usher in spring! Renowned science writer Carl Safina describes spring peepers so beautifully in his new book The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World. I enjoy reading anything...
by Susan | Feb 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Oscars are coming on Sunday, and one of the movies up for best documentary, Gasland, has a scene in which a woman goes down to her local creek and discovers that after fracking wells had been dug on her land, animals, including rabbits, birds, frogs, began dying....
by Susan | Feb 18, 2011 | Animal Die-Offs 2011, Chemicals in the Environment, Environmental Health, Uncategorized
A few weeks ago, we wrote a post about the unusual mass die-offs of animals that have been occurring since the beginning of this year. While writing this post, we had to wade through a lot of strange stories to try and get to the truth, including a few conspiracy...
by Susan | Feb 14, 2011 | Frog fun
ROSES ARE RED Frogs Are Green!
by Susan | Feb 9, 2011 | Amphibian research, Frogs and Medicine, Uncategorized
We recently came across a fascinating article in Nature News, “Frogs and Humans Are Kissing Cousins.” You might be surprised to learn that you have a whole lot more in common with frogs than you thought—at a genetic level, anyway. The gene order of the Western Clawed...
by Susan | Feb 4, 2011 | Frog posters, FROGS ARE GREEN Top 10 LISTS, Frogs in Sports, Odd frog stories, Uncategorized
At this time of the year, while frogs and toads are deep in hibernation (in our part of the world anyway), our Google alerts for frog news are full of stories about Horned Frogs, not the frog species, but rather the sports teams. Not being much of a sports fan, I...
