When the cold weather comes, I bundle up in a sweater and explore the snow. But my frog friends are never around then. In fact, I’ve never seen a frog in a sweater. I asked my friend Erica Crespi why ...

As winter tightens its grip across southern Manitoba, the ponds, forests and wetlands that were alive with movement just months ago appear to fall silent. The chorus of frogs fades, turtles disappear ...

Some animals in Canada will chill off so much in winter that they actually freeze, ensuring their survival through the harsh months. Such is the case with the wood frog. To ensure it can make it ...

Frogs breathe through their skin, a process called cutaneous respiration, which allows them to absorb oxygen directly from the water.

The weather during the first week of April this year was a bit of an anomaly. For the most part, the winter was mild and months of temperatures above normal became normal. And where the first half of ...

How cold did it get last weekend? We didn't quite make iguana-dropping temperatures in South Florida, but the thermometer dropped enough to make cold-blooded creatures seek warmer locales. Which is ...

The first genetic link in the evolution of the heart from three-chambered to four-chambered has been found, illuminating part of the puzzle of how birds and mammals became warm-blooded. Frogs have a ...