For more than 10 years, the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance has led an effort to bolster the population of a threatened species, the mountain yellow-legged frog. But as the zoo’s facilities have ...

Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego marked the occasion as its first ever species reintroduction. The frogs were released into the San Bernardino Mountains in a ...

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Zoo has released 450 tadpoles and 193 subadult southern mountain yellow-legged frogs into the streams of the San Gabriel Mountains in an effort to restore the species ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

The Los Angeles Zoo has released more than 600 endangered southern mountain yellow-legged frogs into the wild as part of a long-running recovery effort led by the U.S. Geological Survey. The release ...

Nearly 500 endangered tadpoles and close to 200 frogs that were bred at the Los Angeles Zoo were released back to San Gabriel Mountains streams, where the species once thrived. Except for 38 frogs ...