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An unsightly mud puddle in your yard? Look closer. It may be teeming with life.

This game gives students a sense of the life cycle and challenges faced by migratory wood frogs.

Vernal pools are essential for salamander breeding, providing food and shelter in the absence of predatory fish. If pools dry up, immature salamanders may die.

Frogs and toads are not completely alike, but both are amphibians that belong to the same order, and have several differences that set them apart from one another.

Dragonflies are ancient amphibious insects in the order Odonata. Their aquatic predatory larvae metamorphose into aerial predators with better agility than bats have.

When spring arrives in the northeast USA, the earliest signs are subtle but incontrovertible. The natural world is waking as the days get longer.