Female frogs aren't hopping to mate with every interested male frog, scientists have found. Instead, they are faking their deaths to escape unwanted attention. Female European common frogs were ...

A new study shows that, contrary to previous assumptions, female common frogs can reject males and have developed a variety of mate avoidance behaviors to do so. The research was led by Carolin ...

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BERLIN - Some female frogs may fake their own deaths in an effort to avoid unwanted male advances during mating season, according to researchers behind a newly-published study. Female European common ...

Bacteria living on the skin of frogs could save them from a deadly virus, new research suggests. Ranavirus kills large numbers of European common frogs—the species most often seen in UK ponds—and is ...