Scientists have discovered a strange new toad species smaller than a fingernail in a rainforest in northeast Brazil, shedding more light on the rich diversity of life forms in the region. The species ...

Boulenger’s backpack frog uses one of the strangest reproductive strategies in the amphibian world. Females carry fertilized ...

Distribution of the frogs studied and examples of their finger disc widths. Distribution of the Kaloula conjuncta complex A and B K. picta. Diamond = location of samples sequenced for this study; star ...

There’s much more to frogs than hopping and ribbiting. Some frogs swallow their tadpoles and later cough tiny, fully formed frogs out of their mouths. Some freeze in the winter, only to come back to ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

The role human-induced climate change plays in the decline of frog species just took a strange turn. Scientists are becoming keenly aware that animals’ bodies are being affected in peculiar ways due ...

Maybe frog and fungi are friends. By Jude Coleman Over the summer, Lohit Y.T., a river and wetlands specialist at World Wildlife Fund-India, set off with his friends in the drizzly foothills of the ...