Frog gigging — hunting with a three-pronged spear — is a dying art that nevertheless draws thousands to Missouri marshes in search of a tasty treat with deep cultural roots. It’s the middle of the ...

An experiment with fake frogs shows how certain bats adjust their hunting technique to compensate for unnatural noises. Humankind is loud, and research already suggests that birds alter their singing ...

In one of nature’s crueler fatal-attraction scenarios, a male túngara frog’s mating call also attracts frog-eating bats. Any hopes a frog has of disguising his call against background noise will be ...

A pastime that doesn’t produce much buzz on X, Facebook, Fox or even MSNBC is about to get mentioned here, where newsworthiness matters more than exalted trivia. Let’s put on public record, then, that ...

Let the nighttime frog hunts begin. In the midst of budget negotiations and a sometimes contentious debate over the retirement system for teachers, the Senate took up something of slightly less import ...

COLUMBIA - Frog hunting season began across Mid-Missouri Monday at sunrise. Bullfrogs and green frogs are the two species of frogs people are allowed to hunt. Children under the age of 16 and adults ...

Well past midnight, Tim Reed and Rodney Smith paddle down a skinny stretch of water in northern New York, to a spot where the high-cut riverbank transitions to flood plain. As Smith makes one last ...

City folk may not know it, but it's frog-hunting season in Oklahoma. Generations of Southerners have passed down the tradition of fishin' in the dark for Oklahoma's delicacy - frog legs - which taste ...

A rubber-legged Cyclops stalked the water’s shallow banks in the night. Thomas Mitchell, president of the Frog Gigging Club at Virginia Tech, sloshed along the pond’s edge wearing chest-high waders ...

LANSING — Let the nighttime frog hunts begin. In the midst of budget negotiations and a sometimes contentious debate over the retirement system for teachers, the Senate took up something of slightly ...

Two of a Kind: Tim Reed (left) and Rodney Smith pause their hunt for a photo. Well past midnight, Tim Reed and Rodney Smith paddle down a skinny stretch of water in northern New York, to a spot where ...