One of the hottest frog stories buzzing on the Internet these days must surely be the sensational story of the discovery of a lost world inside the crater of Mount Bosavi, an extinct volcano on Papua New Guinea, in which scientists have found some 40 previously undiscovered species. As well as a headline-grabbing giant rat - we're talking BIG here, think the size of a cat - there is also a frog with fangs and a further fifteen other new frog species!
All promises to be revealed in Lost Land Of The Volcano on BBC1 at 9 o’clock tonight.
Interesting recording of the song of the Eastern Gray Tree Frog and cricket frogs in a drainage ditch at Riverbend Forest Preserve, Champaign County, Illinois, USA.
The additional sounds in the background are made by crickets, geese on the lake, a bird in the woods and American toads in the distance...
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There's an interesting and timely piece of frog news on the BBC News Website today warning would-be frog conservationists about the dangers of a decades old do-it-yourself method of rehousing frogs by moving frogspawn from pond to pond...
Conservationists are urging people not to carry out "frogspawn-swapping" this spring because of problems they say it can create for the pond environment.
Wildlife-lovers in the UK often donate frogspawn from their ponds to others to give frogs a potential new home.
But the Froglife charity said this could lead to the spread of invasive plants and harmful diseases.
There was some amazing footage on the Science and Nature pages of BBC News yesterday showing the rare Panamanian golden frog waving, wrestling and courting for the first time. In fact, shortly after recording the footage for the BBC One series Life In Cold Blood (which is presented by Sir David Attenborough), the frogs had to be rescued from the wild, due to the threat of chytrid fungus - the whole species is now extinct in Panama and this recording shows their unusual behaviour for both the first and last time in their natural habitat.
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