UCLA conservation biologist Brad Shaffer and other scientists have resolved a nearly 80-year-old mystery surrounding a group of frogs in and around New York City known for their distinctively odd croak.

Professor Peter Narins has been elected president of the International Society for Neuroethology, a post he will hold until 2016.

UCLA psychologists find that white Americans may view diversity and multiculturalism more negatively as the U.S. moves toward becoming a minority-majority nation.

UCLA evolutionary biologist Thomas Smith and colleagues from seven other universities explain that pests and diseases are evolving too quickly, while people and endangered species are evolving too slowly.