Southern Brown Tree Frog

In interior Alaska and some parts of Canada, witches' broom (an abnormal outgrowth of branches of the tree resembling the sweeping end of a broom), is commonly seen on black and white spruce trees. From late fall through the winter, the brooms are dark brown or "dead"looking and are often mistaken for birds' and squirrels' nests.

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It had been five years since the first of the frog eggs had been moved, carefully plucked from Mexico's Baja Peninsula and transported by cooler to Southern California. Anny Peralta-Garcia was getting ...

Daily Reporter: The call of a native frog is heard again in Southern California thanks to help from Mexico and AI

The call of a native frog is heard again in Southern California thanks to help from Mexico and AI

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Science Daily: Australia's oldest prehistoric tree frog hops 22 million years back in time

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America. Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species ...

Australia's oldest prehistoric tree frog hops 22 million years back in time

AOL: The call of a native frog is heard again in Southern California thanks to help from Mexico and AI

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Herpetologist David Mora reaches for a red-legged froglet in a restoration pond that is part of a cross-border effort to bring back the native species in both Baja California, Mexico, and Southern ...

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Interior Alaskan forests have only six native tree species: white spruce, black spruce, quaking aspen, balsam poplar, larch (tamarack) and paper birch. Northern Canadian forests have all of those, plus jack pine, balsam fir and lodgepole pine. Since northern Canada and interior Alaska share the same grueling climate and extremes of daylength, why are the Canadian tree species absent from ...