As the storm crossed Houston on Monday morning, the call of the toads echoed from every flooded street corner. By Shannon Sims Reporting from Houston Amid the cacophony of pelting rain, exploding fuse ...

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Summer is my favorite season, and the past few weekends have included seeing and hearing various frogs and toads. Earlier this month I had the opportunity ...

Steve McQuilkin of The Fort Myers News-Press captured this sound of the invasive, toxic cane toads in his Cape Coral neighborhood. C. A. Bridges Are coyotes in Florida? One was stuck on a hotel ledge ...

The noise rose and fell in the night air, an odd, almost metallic whirring. Was it some nocturnal construction machinery? A descending spacecraft? It was nothing he'd ever heard in his quiet Cape ...

Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) found that the fringe-lipped bat, known to eavesdrop on frog and toad mating calls to find its prey, learns to distinguish between ...

A fringe-lipped bat, Trachops cirrhosus, approaches a Fitzinger's robber frog, Craugastor fitzingeri, in Panama. This species of bat eavesdrops on the mating calls that male frogs produce to attract ...