The animal kingdom is full of fascinating tricks for enduring sub-freezing temperatures. Birds, for example, often just take ...
Understand that all animals have a life cycle that includes being born, developing into an adult, reproducing, and eventually dying Understand that the details of life cycles vary from one organism to ...
Wood frogs — Lithobates sylvaticus, also known as Rana sylvatica — live farther north than any other amphibian, even beyond ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. It looks dead for months, its body packed with ice. But ...
The Eiffinger's tree frog (Kurixalus eiffingeri), found on Ishigaki and Iriomote islands in Japan, has a unique biological adaptation: its tadpoles do not defecate during their early developmental ...