If you thought you were snagging a boring green frog for a meal and suddenly came face to face with deep red eyes and bright blue legs, you might think twice about whether or not this would be a ...

Red-eyed tree frogs are not endangered. But their habitat is shrinking at an alarming rate, and their highly recognizable image is often used to promote the cause of saving the world's rain forests.

Some frogs are, like, so nervous.” Maybe that’s why the red-eyed tree frog has gotten famous, with its picture on so many calendars, I suggest—they’re easier to photograph than other frogs.

They look cuddly, but red-eyed treefrogs have a secret dark side. When Michael Caldwell, Smithsonian postdoctoral fellow, filmed the frogs under infrared light he saw a curious behavior: they ...

“For red-eyed tree frogs, their fast-hatching mechanism enables about 80 percent of embryos to escape from snake and wasp attacks, over a pretty broad developmental period,” Warketin says.

Here’s how it works. Red-eyed tree frog embryos are capable of hatching prematurely if necessary. Otherwise, they continue to develop in safety, in their eggs. (Image credit: Karen M. Warkentin) ...

But red-eyed tree frog eggs can hatch in seconds, if the need arises. Karen Warkentin discovered this ability in 1995, and she has spent the last 20 years exploring it.

Kyron Horman in front of his science fair project on the red-eyed tree frog.Kyron Horman and his stepmom Terri Moulton Horman toured the science fair at the second-grader’s Portland elementary ...