Frogs are classified as amphibians. Amphibians are cold-blooded creatures that have smooth skin that is usually moist, breathe air through lungs as adults, and most lay eggs in a jelly-like mass in ...

Latham Life One of my favorite sounds of spring is the evening chorus that rises from wetlands after the first warm rains. The Spring Peeper, a type of small Tree Frog, seems to signal that winter is ...

Q. What is making the loud, chirping sound I hear when I walk by the woods after dark? A. A few evenings ago when it was about to rain and the air was heavy with moisture, I went out to explore a ...

The spring peeper, Pseudacris crucifer, is a tiny chorus frog with a big voice. (Harvey Bird) Many people have heard spring peepers as they drive by wetlands in the early spring, but most people have ...

Spring peepers is Ohio's smallest native frog, but the chorus of high-pitched peeps the males make during mating season can be quite loud. The emergence of the spring peepers, which already can be ...

Claim to fame: The northern spring peeper is one of the Ozarks’ well-known signs of spring because it is this region’s earliest-calling frog of spring. Although some Ozarkers have never seen a spring ...

In winter, spring peepers don't care if it rains or snows. They are dead. At least, they appear to be dead, but they're actually asleep. Their body produces an antifreeze-like chemical that allows ...

Yesterday (3/4 – Monday) was the first day I heard the “spring peepers” or chorus frogs. They are among the first sounds of spring. In the evening…I sometimes walk out to the end of the driveway to ...

Rain has replaced snow, daylight spans more than 13 full hours now, and the blooming crocuses and snowdrops have been joined by all sorts of little green sprouting bulbs that have popped up in the ...