For nearly two centuries, a small brown frog living in Southeast Asian rainforests was considered a single, well-understood species. It had a name. It had a place in the textbooks. Case closed. Then ...

When threatened, hairy frogs break toe bones to form sharp, temporary claws that pierce through their skin for defense. Males sprout blood-rich, hair-like filaments during mating season, boosting ...

More than 350 frogs made the leap back into the Southern California wilderness this month, part of an effort from Birch Aquarium and other regional partners to reintroduce an endangered species to its ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tomato frog (Dyscophus Antongilii) in terrarium, Orange Madagascar tomato frog, Dyscophus antongilii, walking over the ground© ...

A quiet world beneath Madagascar’s forest floor has just become far richer. An international team of scientists has described seven new species of diamond frogs, a secretive group known as ...

Researchers discovered that a poison frog species described decades ago was based on a mix-up involving the wrong museum specimen. The frog tied to the official species name turned out to be brown, ...

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A first-ever karyotype description of the cryptic tree frog Litoria paraewingi, compared with Litoria ewingii and Litoria ...

Anyone walking through the Tarumã neighborhood in Curitiba (the capital of the state of Paraná, Brazil) today may find it difficult to imagine the area as it was in the past. Between the buildings, ...

Frogs around the world are being wiped out by a deadly fungus. The chytrid fungus has caused some 90 frog species to go extinct. Scientists found “frog saunas” can help warm frogs and fight off the ...

It's the next generation -- of tree frogs. A new species was discovered in Madagascar and named for having "Star Trek" like cadences. Paramount/courtesy Everett Collection Beam me up, froggy. Deep in ...