"It's a pretty rare opportunity for a desert ecologist to be able to say that they're going out 'frogging'," Dr West said. It is not just the frogs that have reappeared after the rain. Dr West ...

Frogs and toads make up the largest group of amphibians. However, a lot of people are not aware of a Desert Rain Frog. The species, which is mostly found in Namibia and South Africa, is on a ...

Outback rain ... frogs to the surface The frogs can spend months or years underground, waiting for the perfect conditions You would look grumpy too if you were a frog in the desert While ...

This isn't the first time that a rain frog has gone viral. In 2013, a desert rain frog was dubbed the world's cutest frog in a viral video that was viewed more than 22 million times. Here's a ...

One of the cutest butts in the natural world undoubtedly belongs to the desert rain frog. It’s small, saggy, and looks like Hank Hill‘s bottom in “King of the Hill.” There’s just ...

Dean Boshoff, 27, photographed the tiny desert rain frog last month while on a camping trip in the Northern Cape, and after expecting only about 50 hits, he’s already been interviewed by CNN New ...

Get a little rain in a desert, and all sorts of things can happen - like frogs. In our series "Sounds Wild", NPR is collecting the voices of animals. Today we've got a mob of frogs recorded in the ...

The desert rain frog (Breviceps macrops) has legs that are too short to hop. Instead, it walks. Male frogs of the genus Pipa are known to defend their territory by jumping at and then wrestling ...

If a frog’s scream attracts a cat, dog, or other large animal, it can escape while the two predators duke it out. For such a small amphibian, desert rain frogs are smarter than most give them ...