These colourful frogs with strikingly beautiful patterns ... on their arrows and darts before hunting. Found in the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East, the deathstalker scorpion has ...

The Desert Rain Frog has achieved internet fame for a very specific reason—its surprisingly adorable squeak that sounds more like a squeaky toy than an amphibian call. Native to a narrow coastal strip ...

African Bullfrog. Image via Openverse ... sense changes in soil moisture through their skin even while encased in protective cocoons. The Desert Rain Frog (Breviceps macrops) is so attuned to rainfall ...

The Makgadikgadi Pans National Park is part of a rare African open wild land ... and blinding white salt flats in the Kalahari Desert. She is also one of ten mares outfitted with a radio collar ...

Scientists added descriptive terms to the existing general Indigenous frog and reptile names to make them specific.

These names have the same root word or sound throughout most of the Indigenous South African languages and I am curious about how this happened. Rain Frogs are also called Senanatswidi in Sepedi ...

Fortunate Phaka is a zoologist who has conducted the first comprehensive analysis of naming and classification of frogs and reptiles in nine South African cultures. The list includes 136 frog and ...

If a frog’s scream attracts a cat, dog, or other large animal, it can escape while the two predators duke it out. For such a small amphibian, desert rain frogs are smarter than most give them ...