Late last Friday afternoon, just about to relax into the weekend, I checked NPR.org to see what was new and ran smack into a story about a cruel tradition here in the American South: frog gigging.

The cordyceps fungus of "The Last of Us" may not pose a real risk of zombie-fying humankind, but can the same be said of our amphibian friends? Indian scientists on a nature walk through the foothills ...

A small mushroom grows from the side of a Rao's intermediate golden-backed frog. You’ve heard of a toadstool, but now there’s something much stranger: a frog mushroom. Researchers in India came across ...