The ancient swamp was a "sex death trap" for the frogs, according to a statement that Zenger News obtained from the University College Cork (UCC), on Wednesday, July 6.

Movies have made quicksand look like the ultimate doom trap—step in the wrong spot, and you’ll be sucked under in […] ...

Researchers have solved an ancient mystery — what killed a group of prehistoric frogs. Prior research blamed lack of oxygen or dried up lakes, but the true culprit was a swamp mating death trap.

The watery death trap contains remains of 50,000 birds, horses, bats, fish, and frogs. The fate of hundreds of frogs that died 45 million years ago in an ancient swamp has long baffled scientists ...

Quicksand can be found all over the U.S. but is most often found near estuaries or rivers. It is particularly common in marshy coasts of Florida and the Carolinas, as well as the canyons of ...

The quicksand depicted in films, when a daring adventurer is suddenly ensnared in a life-threatening vortex of sand, is largely a myth. But that didn’t make it any less scary when Mitchell O ...