By this I mean that I was out of breath for the 20th time when I reached the summit of Monserate Mountain on Tuesday morning, moments after sunrise. It has to be the steepest maintained trail in ...

A man was pronounced dead Thursday after he went into cardiac arrest while hiking in the Monserate Mountain Preserve in Fallbrook. The man went into cardiac arrest while hiking a "significant ...

BRADES, Montserrat — There may be hope for the mountain chicken. More than five years ago, dozens of Leptodactylus fallax frogs—a species nicknamed the “mountain chicken”—were airlifted ...

Image: TimVickers via Wikimedia Commons Mountain chickens used to be found on several islands in the Lesser Antilles, but now only occur on Dominica and Montserrat. The species was once abundant on ...

Montserrat's "mountain chicken" frog has become the latest victim of the killer fungal disease that is devastating amphibians worldwide. UK researchers say that only two small pockets of the animals ...