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For nearly a year, 50 animatronic cameras disguised as realistic life-size penguins, eggs and rocks infiltrate penguin colonies to record the tough challenges penguins face from the moment they emerge from the sea to raising their chicks and finally returning to the water.

Frogs come in a huge variety of shapes, colors, sizes and personalities. Famed naturalist Sir David Attenborough met a multitude of these webbed wonders while filming the Nature episode Fabulous Frogs. Click on the buttons below for interesting frog facts.

From tropical tree tops to lake bottoms to frozen tundra, the diverse group of amphibians we call frogs and toads has conquered nearly every environment on planet earth. Through the process of natural selection, early frog ancestors branched out into over 4000 species; each with ...

Frogs and other amphibians are under pressure. Nearly one-third of the world's amphibians are threatened or extinct, according to a report from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Habitat loss is perhaps the biggest contributor to these declines. The spread of a ...

The male Panamanian Golden Frog (Atelopus zeteki) has a subtle ways of attracting a females--it waves. This friendly gesture can attract the unwanted attention of a rival male, which often ends in a wrestling match.

A male African Bullfrog digs a channel for his young to escape dehydration and death.

Sir David Attenborough takes us on a journey through the weird and wonderful world of frogs, shedding new light on these charismatic, colorful and frequently bizarre little animals through first-hand stories, the latest science, and cutting-edge technology. Frogs from around the world are used to ...

Get a look at some of the planet’s great gatherings, creatures that come together in inconceivable numbers — sometimes in millions, billions, even trillions. In the process, a kind of super-organism is created in which individual intelligence is superseded by a collective consciousness that shares ...

Expand your zoological vocabulary with nine illustrated definitions of animal swarms.