Hundreds of the animals were loaded into coolers and hiked into the backcountry.

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There’s nothing like that first spring salad you’ve been babying for weeks. And there’s nothing like walking out one damp ...

Garter snakes can survive being frozen solid for hours. Here’s how evolution, biochemistry and behavior have allowed them to ...

Somewhere between life and death is the Alaskan Tree Frog. Discover how this amphibian freezes and lives to tell the tale.

Long before winter seals the forest under ice, certain frogs begin preparing for a transformation that defies basic biology.

The tortoise only trundles out, and concludes her cold weather brumation, right around the time when spring is starting to ...

Wood frogs — Lithobates sylvaticus, also known as Rana sylvatica — live farther north than any other amphibian, even beyond ...

I recently read an essay called "Marin teen honored for alternatives to real-frog dissection" about Indigo Prasad, a seventh-grader at Mark Day School in San Rafael, California. I was thrilled to see ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. It looks dead for months, its body packed with ice. But ...