I was tossing, turning and swearing retribution but I was not sleeping. It was after midnight and I had someone to blame. More accurately, something to blame. The annoying sound carried across the ...

That sound is made only by Pacific tree frogs, which live on the West Coast. But thanks to Hollywood, a recording of Pacific tree frogs “ribbiting” has been used in movies for almost a century to ...

The booming chorus of thousands of high-pitched “kreek-eecks” from a gathering of small but tenacious Pacific tree frogs has filled the night in many Central Coast locations with the recent warm rains ...

Urban wildlife sanctuaries, including an overgrown Capp Street backyard, are helping bring a tiny frog’s once-familiar bellow back to San Francisco. “At one time, the chorus frog was the sound of the ...

Once, some people believed that if you made a wish after seeing the first frog in the spring, the wish would come true. There also was the belief that frogs were possessed by the souls of dead ...