HENDERSON — Thirty years ago, the discovery of deformed frogs at a small pond — in what is now part of the Ney Nature Center — turned Minnesota New Country School students into citizen scientists.

It was back in 1995 that a group of Minnesota middle schoolers shocked the scientific community when they returned from a field trip to report that more than half the frogs they'd captured had major ...

Now there’s another good reason for controlling farm runoff. Scientific research has clarified the role of agricultural chemicals in causing deformities in frogs and other amphibians. Alarm over the ...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. - After slogging through 101 ponds and wetlands in five western states, scientists on the trail of a mysterious outbreak of deformities in frogs have settled on a microscopic ...

The number of frogs with severe limb deformities or extra legs in the U.S. are increasing, according to a new study, and may be a warning of things to come in Australia. Research by graduate student ...

Increases in the diversity of parasites that attack amphibians cause a decrease in the infection success rate of virulent parasites, including one that causes malformed limbs and premature death, says ...