A large coalition of federal, state and county agencies have joined forces to protect one tiny El Dorado County resident – a frog. The red legged frog, to be exact. In a meeting of the El Dorado ...

Red-legged frogs made famous by Mark Twain are once again roaming around Yosemite Valley after a half-century absence. Ecologists this spring found clusters of eggs in meadows and ponds, proof of the ...

FILE ART - Red-legged tree frogs are making a comback in Yosemite National Park. YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) - Red-legged frogs made famous by Mark Twain are thriving in Yosemite Valley after ...

It demonstrates that perseverance and hard work can pay off. Scientists celebrate incredible milestone in years-long effort ...

ANGELS CAMP, Calif. — When Mark Twain published “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” in 1865, the frog helped make him famous, and he returned the favor. Since then, the frog has made the ...

Nearly 600 California red-legged frog tadpoles were released into Santa Monica Mountains streams recently, marking an emergency conservation success for a species that vanished from the area more than ...

No other specimens have been collected in the past six decades, Grant said, and the “only known” habitat for the species has been destroyed since the frog was first found. The evidence suggests that ...

Reports of the California red-legged frog’s death are greatly exaggerated. The amphibian made famous by Mark Twain, who wrote about it in his short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras ...

Katy Delaney stood at the top of the canyon, below her feet a wooded glen transformed into a wasteland. At the bottom, the walls of the canyon were green with new scrub. Above that, the crooked black ...

(AP) — Red-legged frogs made famous by Mark Twain are thriving in Yosemite Valley after a decades-long absence. Ecologists this spring found clusters of eggs in meadows and ponds, proof of the first ...