Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Geological Survey biologist Elizabeth Gallegos leads her team on a hike to release Southern California mountain yellow-legged ...

Smithsonian researchers in Panama have begun to reintroduce native golden frogs to the wild in special enclosures ...

Up-to-date population estimates are difficult to determine because of environmental restraints preventing access to sites where the frogs are thought to live. The goal of the recent efforts has been ...

Foothill yellow-legged frogs are striking stream-dwelling amphibians with a distinctive lemon-yellow color under their legs. They live in Pacific drainages from the upper reaches of the Willamette ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Some like it hot. Apparently, the endangered mountain yellow-legged frog ...

Up to only a few inches in length, with a lemon-hued belly, the foothill yellow-legged frog may seem unassuming. But its range once stretched from central Oregon to Baja California. In 2023, it was ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— In response to a Center for Biological Diversity petition and lawsuits, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected four populations of foothill yellow-legged frogs in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Shortly after World War II, California fish managers had a brainstorm: They loaded juvenile trout into airplanes and saturation-bombed naturally fishless ...

Mountain yellow-legged frogs, long under threat from trout, people and disease, are getting new protections from state Fish and Game officials. The frogs live at elevation — in streams, rivers, creeks ...

Six biologists shouldered backpack coolers filled with 200 federally endangered frogs on Thursday morning and started trudging uphill across three miles of roadless wilderness on the northwestern ...