A copy of the plan can be seen at the Roxana Public Library. Listed as “threatened,” the 1.5-inch frog is only found in Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas. It has dark spots along its body and a ...

The landing is “very precise, very controlled,” says Richard Essner, a biologist at Southern Illinois University ... skulls of several species of frogs, they found that, in the pumpkin ...

Don't blink—you might miss three new species of tiny frogs discovered in Peru. Scientists found the grape-size ... a biologist at Illinois Wesleyan University. “Then I understood why nobody ...

Wetlands are also in decline. Illinois has lost about 90% of its wetlands since pre-colonial times, making it hard for frogs to find stable breeding grounds. Buildup of pesticides and heavy metals ...

"Frogs are more associated with water, where toads tend to be a little bit more terrestrial. They will be found farther away from water. "One visible difference is that toads have paratoid glands ...

Pumpkin toadlets — miniature frogs native to Brazil ... says Richard Essner at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. But when his collaborators in Brazil found that 1-centimetre-long ...

The latest study, which was posted online last month but has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal, came from biologists at the University of Illinois ... s team found that frogs ...