Someone in northwestern Australia heard a “laughing” sound coming from the backyard. They recorded the sound and submitted it to a citizen science database. Scientists listened to this laugh-like ...

Are you STILL trying to find the perfect holiday gift for the person who has everything, or who wants nothing? How about an album featuring the love songs of Endangered Australian frogs? Green and ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Wading through a moonlit pond on Australia's east coast talking to frogs makes Michael Mahony feel like a kid again. The 70-year-old biology professor and conservationist at ...

Australia’s frogs are under threat, and the Australian Museum is asking for your help to halt their decline. This article is brought to you by the Australian Museum. Let’s face it. Too many of us know ...

Everyone that has ever heard a frog croak associates the sound with the word “Ribbit.” In reality, the natural noise that comes from a frog or toad is really more like a chirp. Thanks to the magic of ...

There’s a high-pitched sound that once echoed across an Australian tropical island that will never be heard again. As the Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura) began to decline in numbers, first ...

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America. Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species ...

Jodi Rowley is the Lead Scientist of the Australian Museum's citizen science project, FrogID. She has received funding from the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Perth Zoo, the ...