The California red-legged frog and northern red-legged frog were once both classified as subspecies — Rana a. draytonii and Rana a. aurora, respectively — of the red-legged frog (Rana aurora). But a ...

Nine egg masses from the California red-legged frog were discovered on March 14 in a creek in the Santa Monica Mountains, which stretch from Los Angeles westward along the Malibu coast into ...

Several frog species are happy to call this home, but the one drawing all the headlines and VIP attention is the California red-legged frog, which in 1996 was declared threatened under the ...

Katy Delaney gasped and then cried inside the National Park Service headquarters in Thousand Oaks. Red-legged frogs once gone from the Santa Monica Mountains, then reintroduced by a team of ...

Experts agree: Mark Twain's favorite amphibian, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” is none other than the California red-legged frog. Once so common it was a staple cuisine, California ...

This May 3, 2019, photo provided by the National Park Service shows a close-up image of a red-legged frog released on Friday May 3, 2019 in Cook's Meadow in Yosemite Valley. Red-legged frogs made ...

The Land Trust of Napa County’s Wragg Ridge preserve near Lake Berryessa has ponds well-suited for the California red-legged frog, but as of two years ago, no known frog population. Today ...

Photo from Land Trust of Napa County Before their populations started to dwindle, California red-legged frogs could be found in ponds and wetlands from Northern California all the way down to Mexico.

Brooke Herbert, Brooke Herbert/OPB / OPB Each winter, Northern red-legged frogs deposit their eggs in gelatinous masses in the Harborton wetland, where they incubate for several weeks. Once the ...

The red-legged frog is one of literature’s most lasting icons, yet most people would be hard pressed to identify this rather unassuming little amphibian. Travel to Calaveras County, California, ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed slashing critical habitat for California’s threatened red-legged frog by over 80 percent, from 4.1 million to 737,912 acres. Why, you ask?