More than 600 rare tadpoles and frogs have been released into the mountains north of Los Angeles. The L.A. Zoo bred and raised the southern mountain yellow-legged frog species, nurturing them until ...

Critically endangered southern mountain yellow-legged frogs gather together in a tank in their breeding room at the Los Angeles Zoo on Tuesday, October 2, 2018 as biologists gather tadpoles to ...

A mountain legged-yellow frog is 2 to 3 inches long, with a belly and legs that are often orange or yellow, and backs that are yellowish or reddish brown with black or brown spots.

Up to only a few inches in length, with a lemon-hued belly, the foothill yellow-legged frog may seem unassuming. But its range once stretched from central Oregon to Baja California. In 2023, it ...

Scientists found a “large”-eyed creature with “pale yellow” fingertips in a bamboo forest of China and discovered a new species. Photo from Jing Liu via Liu, Peng, Wang, Feng, Shen, Li ...

Foothill yellow-legged frogs are striking stream-dwelling amphibians with a distinctive lemon-yellow color under their legs. They live in Pacific drainages from the upper reaches of the Willamette ...

In August, the National Park Service approved a 30-year plan to remove nonnative fish from yellow-legged frog habitats in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, about 130 miles south of Yosemite.

Kin Onn Chan, Rafe M. Brown, Kelvin K.P. Lim, Norhayati Ahmad and Lee Grismer. 2014. A New Species Of Frog (Amphiba: Anura: Ranidae) of the Hylarana Signata Complex from Peninsular Malaysia.

Scientists found a “large”-eyed creature with “pale yellow” fingertips in a bamboo forest of China and discovered a new species. Photo from Jing Liu via Liu, Peng, Wang, Feng, Shen, Li ...