With showers forecast across Tasmania this week some would say 'it is good weather for ducks' but it is great weather to hear frogs. Tasmania is home to 11 of Australia's 240 known frog species, three ...

It's a small critter, but it's spawning a national movement. (Sound of frog call) With more than 240 species in Australia, each with a unique call, chief scientist Dr Jodi Rowley has helped develop a ...

Tiny frogs that have no middle ear use their mouths to hear, French scientists say. A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the almighty eardrum may not be ...

This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Jeff DelViscio. Today: part two of our three-part sound escape series to the Amazon rain forest. In this episode, we’re going into the dark. Make ...

A small frog species from China is the first amphibian shown to use ultrasonic calls, says an international research team. Equipment designed for studying bats picked up high-pitched chirrups in the ...

Hiking through the dense rainforest of Madagascar, scientists heard a series of “otherworldly” sounds. The “somewhat bizarre” calls came from several “cute” creatures living near streams. They turned ...

Drawing parallels with other species, not naming names, the voices of female frogs are being drowned out by their much louder male counterparts – so much so we only know how 1.4% of the ladies ...