Florida already has a long list of invasive species, which includes Burmese pythons, Nile crocodiles, poisonous toads, “River Monsters,” herpes monkeys, meningitis snails, and cute little capybara. So ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A Cuban tree frog from Florida might not have paid for an Uber to travel to another state, but it still managed to hitch a ride in someone's car to North Carolina. This kind of ...

The frogs are made using synthetic tissue and mimic properties of a live frog. The smell of formaldehyde in classrooms may soon be a thing of the past as high schools begin to introduce synthetic ...

Biology class is getting a little more humane at one high school in Florida, where high school students have started dissecting realistic man-made frogs instead of the real animals. Nearly 100 ...

For 40 years, wildlife biologists worldwide have been sounding the alarm on a mass extinction of amphibians. In response, several groups of scientists and volunteers have formed to chronicle exactly ...

Deep in the forests of Haiti lives the blue-eyed La Hotte glanded frog (Eleutherodactylus glandulifer), which once went 20 years without being observed by scientists. It belongs to a diverse genus ...

1992 was the first year of the festival in Fellsmere.

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For some students, dissecting animals in class can be the highlight of the semester. For others, however, it's cruel and ... maybe kind of gross.But for students at a Florida high school, the learning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For a small town located on Florida's interior, Fellsmere is packed with history. The city of 5,000, about 100 miles southeast of ...

As Florida braced for the looming Hurricane Dorian this week, a man from the state found a group of frogs apparently taking shelter from the storm in a set of wind chimes in his backyard. Patrick ...