It's come to my attention that we've been falling down on the job of providing weird animal pics. So here, via the National Wildlife Foundation, is our frog of the day: The red-footed tree frog, ...

Tree frogs’ feet aren’t nearly as powerful as those of the well-studied gecko, but their traction is good enough that they can grip the underside of a wet, slick leaf. Now, researchers have evidence ...

Episode 2 of David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies appeared on TV the other day, and I watched it (in fact, I livetweeted throughout, mostly because I wanted to talk about their portrayal of ...

In the forests of China and Southeast Asia, Chinese flying tree frogs, a type of tree frog called Polypedates dennysi, jump from branch to branch. They can glide a bit, but landing safely is very ...