It ain’t easy being green… or yellow, or red, or any of the other colors you see on Southern California amphibians, according to new research from the U.S. Geological Survey, which found creatures ...

They specialize in different subjects, but biologist Cheryl Briggs and geographer Ian Walker are driven by common goals: restoration and conservation. And now these UC Santa Barbara researchers have ...

CENTRAL COAST, Calif. – Earlier this month, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed the inclusion of the western spadefoot as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The western ...

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Shasta salamander photo courtesy U.S. Forest Service. Photos are available for media use. “California’s on the front lines of the amphibian and reptile extinction crisis, so we're relieved these ...

Biologists from Southern and Baja California have published the first major account of the amphibian disease chytridiomycosis in the Mediterranean region of Baja California. Their results indicate ...

There’s a pandemic sweeping across the globe. No, not COVID, a different one. For decades, a brutal fungal infection has been decimating amphibians worldwide. “We call it a panzootic,” said Andrea ...

Researchers have documented precipitous declines in Cascades Frog (Rana cascadae) populations in the southern portion of the species' range, in the Lassen region of California. Reasons for the ...

On Tuesday, a lucky red-legged frog was returned to the wild in Redwood City’s La Honda Creek Open Space Preserve after receiving six months of treatment at the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (FOX40.COM) — A resident of Tahoe City in ...

They specialize in different subjects, but biologist Cheryl Briggs and geographer Ian Walker are driven by common goals: restoration and conservation. And now these UC Santa Barbara researchers have ...